More than 250 million tablet shipments will be delivered this year

Tencent Science and Technology (Shanhui) Beijing time May 7 News, according to foreign media reports, market research company NPD local time published a report in Monday that this year, tablet computer shipments will be more than the first notebook. NPD expects global tablet computing shipments to reach 256.5 million this year – up 67% from about 159 million in 2012, and more than 1 time to 579.4 million by 2017. This year notebook shipments will be 203.3 million units, and last year basically flat. One bright spot in the notebook market is a touchscreen notebook, with 2014-year touch screen notebook shipments increasing 48%. The 2013-year Slim notebook will account for 66% of notebook shipments, which will grow to 80% in 2017. It is not the new operating system, which is represented by Microsoft Windows 8, but cheap tablet computers and new products such as deformation, NPD said. "The impact of Windows 8 on the popularity of touch-screen technology in laptops has been limited because of the lack of applications and prices that require touch-screen technology," said Richard Shm, an analyst with NPD, in a statement. "The low price has boosted the popularity of tablet computers in emerging markets," NPD said. The rapid growth of so-called unlicensed tablet PCs has eaten into the notebook market, especially in some emerging markets. IDC, a market-research firm, recently pointed out that a brand-name tablet computer is pulling up shipments of tablets. Tablet PC shipments reached 49 million in the first quarter of this year. IDC expects 175 million Tablet PCs to be shipped this year in March and will grow to 350 million units in 2017.