Digitimes Research released their global pico-projector market forecasts for 2011-2013. They say that total shipments will be 10.7 million (up from 3.1 in 2011) – out of which 1.1 million units will be stand alone projectors, and the rest (9.6 million) will be embedded projectors – mostly from digital cameras and phones.
Global pico projector module shipments by application, 2011-2013 (k units)
Application                                 2011   2012    2013
Built-in Digital cameras       1,663    3,410   5,906
Handsets                                      668     1,146    2,770
Notebooks, tablet PCs             28        183      568
Hand-held external devices 611      945       1,144
Total                                              3,100  5,959    10,756

Source: Digitimes Research, compiled by Digitimes, April 2011

DLP and LCoS will remain the top two technologies – with DLP acounting for 38% of the market in 2011 and 40% in 2012 and 2013 according to Digitimes.