20 to 30 million non-iPad tablets to ship next year?

Posted on Sunday, November 28 2010 @ 18:10 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Sources at Taiwanese component makers told DigiTimes that up to 20-30 million tablets, excluding the Apple iPad, may ship in 2011:

There will be 20-30 million tablet PCs, not including iPads, shipped to the global market in 2011, according to Taiwan-based component makers

While handset vendors are inclined to adopt Qualcomm-developed baseband chips in combination with multimedia processors for their tablet PCs, notebook vendors prefer solutions based on GPUs plus baseband chips, the sources indicated.

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