ipad next year sales or growth of 55% non-ipad tablet growth 134%

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 10 noon, Taiwan Market Research Institute Digitimes Research released a new study in Tuesday, the 2012 non-Apple Tablet PC sales will increase by 134%, and Apple's ipad sales will increase by 55%. Digitimes expects Android tablet shipments to rise from 19 million to 20 million in 2011 to 44 million to 45 million in 2012, largely because of a new generation of Android operating systems dedicated to Tablet PCs, ice Cream　　Sandwich is expected to be postponed until the end of 2011. The report says ipad shipments will rise from 14 million to 15 million in 2010 to 35 million to 36 million units in 2011, and 54 million to 55 million in 2012. Meanwhile, with Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments releasing a new generation of processors, the momentum to support tablet growth could also be affected.　　In particular, Nvidia is about to launch the Tegra 3 processor, 3D graphics processing capacity is estimated to be Tegra 2 5 times times. The Tegra 3 processor may be released this September or October. Digitimes in a report last week estimated that Apple would occupy 61% per cent of the tablet market by the end of this year, and that the ipad's annual sales volume of 40 million units would go well beyond the latest report estimates. (OAK)