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Since then he's been busy recruiting programmers to help roll it out to include more languages beyond the original Spanish. Full Article | Video New app calculates calories through photos of food Common budget mistakes for tech startups Touchscreens drive profit at chipmakers as PC sales slow Tweet Share this BANGALORE (Reuters) - Rising sales of smartphones and tablets boosted profit at touchscreen chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor and Synaptics Inc even as their traditionally strong PC market continued to slow down. Cypress Semiconductor gave a blowout... Email Print Related News UPDATE 3-SanDisk raises margin outlook, assures on Japan Thu, Apr 21 2011 UPDATE 4-AMD beats expectations, interviews would-be CEOs Thu, Apr 21 2011 NY Times gains online subscribers, but woes linger Thu, Apr 21 2011 Qualcomm beats Street, raises 2011 targets Wed, Apr 20 2011 Apple crushes forecasts again, iPad backlogged Wed, Apr 20 2011 Analysis & Opinion Morgan Stanley deal redoubles pressure to improve Tech wrap: Apple raises the earnings bar Related Topics Technology » Media » iPad » Stocks BANGALORE | Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:12am EDT BANGALORE (Reuters) - Rising sales of smartphones and tablets boosted profit at touchscreen chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor and Synaptics Inc even as their traditionally strong PC market continued to slow down. Cypress Semiconductor gave a blowout forecast for the current quarter as it expects its touchscreen business to double in 2011. What began as a niche market 15 years ago -- when Silicon Valley-based Synaptics put a credit card-sized touchpad on the Apple Mac Book -- is expected to be worth $9 billion in the next couple of years as touchscreens graduate from handsets and tablets to cameras, GPS devices and car dashboards. Non-PC revenue -- which consists of mainly touchscreen chips -- grew over 87 percent for Synaptics in the third quarter, contributing 57 percent to its revenue, up from less than 35 percent a year ago. Revenue from the company's PC division fell 15 percent in the quarter, while overall revenue rose 23 percent to $142.2 million. Global PC shipments declined 3.2 percent during the first quarter of 2011, according to research firm IDC, hurt by tablets cannibalizing netbooks coupled with waning consumer enthusiasm and disruptions from the Japan earthquake. Cypress expects the touchscreen chip segment, which became its largest business in the first quarter, to more than double in size by the end of the year. "This is an emerging market with very little competition. So there is hardly any pricing pressures on the company's Truetouch line of products, which is driving the growth," Wedbush analyst Betsy Van Hees told Reuters. Cypress and Synaptics along with Atmel Corp control over 90 percent of the market for touchscreen chips, according to analysts. IDC said tablet shipments grew 45.1 percent in the third-quarter of 2010 -- 90 percent of which was Apple Inc's iPad. Apple sold almost 15 million iPads in 2010; RIM is expected to move 3 million PlayBooks in a similar window in 2011, according to 18 analysts polled by Reuters, even as HTC Corp, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics and LG electronics flood the market with tablets running Google Inc's Android. Cypress shares closed up 8 percent at $20.93 on Thursday on Nasdaq. 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