Emerging markets and high performance drive rapid growth in tablet PC demand, says DisplaySearch

Emerging markets and high performance drive rapid growth in tablet PC demand, says DisplaySearch: Shipments of tablet PCs are expected to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017, according to the latest DisplaySearch report. Driving the demand is the continued solid growth in mature markets complemented by increasingly strong growth in emerging markets. Emerging markets are expected to account for up to 46% of worldwide shipments by 2017, an increase from the 36% share in 2011.