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THE MARKET "Next years demand for
notebooks that house LCD displays will be so huge, desktop vendors won't have the materials left over to make the 12 to 18 inch panels for desktop PC's"
IDC Analyst Eric Buckingham, Via Ziff Davis
REVENUE OBJECTIVES TouchTop Technologies' revenue objectives are as follows: *1998 Revenue assumes first license agreement is executed by January, 1998.
**See "Summary of Significant Forecast Assumptions" in Section V of this business plan for revenue recognition policy and other pertinent information. INDUSTRY PROFILE
The information display market is capital intensive, highly concentrated, and
growing at an impressive rate. The average AMLCD plant costs over $1 Billion. Producers get a facility capable of producing about 100,000 12.1" units per
month, assuming yields of around 75%. Worldwide capacity at these plants, including passive LCD plants, is currently in excess of 20 million 12.1" units per
year. Liquid Crystal Displays out sell all other flat panel display systems by a margin of 10 to 1. According to the Society of Electron Devices International,
AMLCD production capacity is expected to reach 40 million 12.1" units by the year 2000. The biggest challenges facing the AMLCD producers can be broken down into four areas:
- High Cost of Manufacturing
- Limited Viewing Angle
- Response Time
- Maximum Viewing Size
As indicated previously, TouchTop Technologies' Light Emitting Dry Crystal Display System overcomes these barriers by enormous proportions. The top five
AMLCD producers worldwide spent more than $1.3 Billion in 1995 for research and development of the next generation display device. Despite this sizable
investment, no clear successor to AMLCD has been developed. Driving the producers' rationale for continued investment is an ever increasing, and currently
unsatisfied, demand for larger, thinner, clearer, and faster display devices by consumers. |
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