In-vehicle Touchscreen and Components

Manufacturers

I   Current Status and Future Outlook of In-vehicle Touchscreen/Component Market

• The eventual form of touchscreens is those that make drivers excited.
• Makers should establish unique position in the market by developing and utilizing technologies.
• What to appeal in in-vehicle touchscreens is new values based on technological innovation rather than price competition.
• There is room to develop new products and new technologies in in-vehicle touchscreens.
• Customer needs for in-vehicle touchscreens to be larger in size, different shapes, and unique designs with curved surface have increased.
• Competition between incell/oncell and outcell has started.

II    Technological Trends of In-vehicle Touchscreen/Components

• The in-vehicle capacitive touchscreen market in 2016 recorded 44.34 million screens, 113.1% of the size of the previous year.
• Shift of demands from resistive touchscreens to capacitive sensing touchscreens has been accelerated, with 51.7% of the entire market becoming capacitive by 2017.
• Film on Glass (FG) resistive touchscreens are promoted for car audios and for emerging countries.
• Due to lightness in weight and prices, OGS, PG2/GG2 has widened the demand.
• Introduction of PFF (including those molded products) has been increasing due not only to lightness in weight, but also improved designs with curved surface and different shapes.
• The in-vehicle touchscreen market, both resistive and capacitive, has been led by Japanese manufacturers.
• New entries of in-vehicle touchscreen market by large touchscreen makers have accelerated, together with expansion of Chinese local makers.
• Not only JDI and LGD have started mass-manufacturing in-vehicle in-cell touchscreens in 2017, Innolux is planning to produce on-cell within 2017
• Touchscreen makers should make use of their advantage of their out-cell production by creating their in-vehicle touchscreens to be larger in size and with curved surface.
• In order to make in-vehicle touchscreens larger in size, more sensitive, different shapes, and to make curved surface, metal mesh touchscreens are to be mass produced from summer, 2017.
• Key to increase user introductions is to secure trust by improving technological completeness.
• There are attempts at makers to process their own cover lenses in order to respond to diverse needs.
• Driver ICs for larger screens have become marketed in responding to larger in-vehicle touchscreens.
• Curved surface of touchscreens have been advanced to be in combination with curved cover lenses.
• To stabilize the quality and procurement of molded products, cooperation with molded product makers have been made one after another.
• Important theme is the development of capacitive touch switches and touchscreen input devices
• Key of next-generation growth is research and studies of "Touch plus alfa," i.e., haptics and 3D gesture, etc.

1. Technological Trends of Components for In-vehicle Touchscreens:

1. ITO Glasses/ITO Films
2. Cover Market (Cover Glasses/Plastic Covers)
3. OCA/OCR Market
4. Leader Line Material Market

III   Perspectives and Strategies of Makers of In-Vehicle Touchscreens and Components

17 enterprises