Source: Touch Display Research, Active pen technologies supply chain and market forecast 2017 report.

“The active pen industry is going through re-shuffling, market shares of leading pen protocols are forecasted in this report,” said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, CEO and Principal Analyst at Touch Display Research. “Digital pen input is very useful in education, certain language input, medical, finance, industry applications, and content creation. Active pen technology is superior to passive in terms of accuracy, pressure sensing, and input of fine line. We forecast that active pen usage will have rapid growth in the next several years.”

• CES 2017 Active pen exhibitions are covered in this report.
• Colegrove, author of this report, has conducted many first-hand interviews of active pen suppliers and OEMs/ODMs that have adopted active pens in recent 10 years.
• All the devices with active pen are compared side-by-side with pen technologies, and pen suppliers in the excel database.
• The 10 key characters of an ideal active pen is analyzed in the report.
• Over 120 companies are profiled and supply chain analysis with many companies is provided.
• A prediction of 2017 winner is in the report. The strengths and weaknesses of key players are analyzed.
• Market shares of Tablet and Hybrid tablet PC with P-cap active pen technology by key companies are provided in the report.
• The roadmap of 14 leading brands toward active pen is analyzed in the report.
• This report provides a Bill of Material (BOM) analysis of active pen module for “pen only” and “pen and finger” touch.
• Market data in the report includes 4 years history data (2013 to 2016), and 6 years forecasts (from 2017 to 2022).
• The market forecast includes Unit, active pen module ASP and Revenue, with a detail breakdown by 9 application devices: mobile phone and phablet, tablet and hybrid tablet PC, notebook PC, All-in-one PC and desktop monitor, signature pad (retail, finance, service, etc), eReader writer, graphic pen board (without display), public signage/interactive board, and other applications.
• Regional analysis is also provided in this report.