It became known that some Taiwanese manufacturers of LCD-panels are preparing for the emergence of netbooks and laptops for Windows 7 and develop capacitive and resistive touch panel with support for multiple simultaneous touches.

Over the past few months, nine companies have already certified the new multitouch panel under the Windows operating system 7, and are looking forward to the mass production of such panels by the end of 2009. In addition to the purely capacitive and resistive multitouch panels will also be produced analog resistive matrix, although in smaller quantities. According to the forecasts of producers, the share of multitouch panels in 2010 will increase to 40-50% of the total number of LCD-panels.

The logo "Windows 7 Compatible" (Compatible with Windows 7) have already received or will receive shortly capacitive panel with a diagonal of 10.4 ", 11.6", 12.1 "and 15" as well as resistive panels with a diagonal of 10.1 ", 11.6" and 17 ". One would expect that at the end of this year, the market will notebooks and netbooks with capacitive, electromagnetic, optical and analog resistive matrices. From an economic point of view, this means that the various sensor technologies appear on the market almost simultaneously and only users can decide which of They work better and what is preferred.