Apple's iPad is just a drizzle; heavy rain of tablet PCs highly predictable in 2010 and 2011

The new tablet computer iPad announced by Apple is the first step in getting the keyboard out of a handheld media-rich computer. The touch is sensed smartly by iPad device to save the users fingers and hands from getting strained by using mechanical switches on ASCII keyboard. This alone is a great step but is developed at a tortoise speed compared to the development of other electronic technologies. The silicon valley is more focused on computing performance rather than providing natural human interface to the computer. Providing touch, sound and sight input interface to the computer is a technological challenge and the market opportunity. The electronics and semiconductor industry has only still achieved touch sense and is no way near in achieving accurate voice and sight sensing at input level. Apple is leading in this tortoise race.

iPad is not a geek's gadget, it is for every normal intellectual who love to access millions of knowledge bases such as books, pictures, videos, audios, and docs; not by the click of button but by soft touch, even while relaxing on a bed. iPad is an advanced netbook computer with least keyboard interface and with no permanent keyboard attached to it. Except for a slight higher price, iPad is far worthier than 200-300$ costing netbooks. What's missing is, Microsoft Windows OS and office applications. They are not supported.

iPad is also a better product than Apple's iPhone in its usage and design.

When it comes to tablet PCs, Apple is not alone in the game. It's just the beginning, there are lot more tablets PCs going to be released in year 2010 and 2011. Intel, Marvell, Freescale, Qualcomm, TI, and many such SoC semiconductor vendors have the platforms available for developing tablets PCs. Processor IP vendor ARM is the major winner in this market.

For the Intel processor based netbooks with windows OS called Wintel systems, Apple iPad can give tough competition. In many ways Apple iPad is a game-changing product.

The success of iPad will be good news for semiconductor industry, which has recovered, and growing by the end of year 2009.
Learn more about iPad by visiting http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/