IHS’s latest forecast for tablets—including both media tablets and PC-type tablets—predicts global shipments will soar to 488 million in 2017, up from 141 million in 2012.
Shipments this year will surge by 72 percent to reach 243 million units.
IHS forecasts nearly half-billion tablet shipments by 2017
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