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Our Businesses
Tablets
We have various types of tablets; all models open up a
world of possibilities and help our customers to experi-
ence more. Our high-performance, professional range
is for specialists and skilled amateurs. Our consumer
tablets are for more general users who use computers
as part of their digital lifestyle to communicate, share
and create content. Our interactive pen displays
enable users to write, draw, sketch and scribble
directly onto the screen due to the pen sensor being
incorporated into the LCD display.
Our successful and varied product line-up makes us
the clear leader in the tablet market. We command an
impressive 85 percent (our estimate approximately) of
the global market and 93.8 percent of the Japanese
market (BCN research 2010). It will not stop there as
Wacom expects the market to accelerate substantially.
Our company is made up of three business sectors in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 – Tablet, Components and
Other businesses. Tablet business develops and manufactures pen tablets and interactive pen displays, combining
pen technologies and/or multi-touch functions. Component business develops and manufactures pen sensor compo-
nents as well as solutions with a multi-touch sensor system. Other businesses consists of CAD-based software pack-
ages for the manufacturing industry and a DJ interface device for professional use.
Components
Major PC manufacturers worldwide have adopted our
pen and multi-touch sensor components. Our compo-
nents allow laptop PCs and Tablet/Slate devices to be
operated naturally with a digital pen and even with the
touch of fingers with our original IC controller. Our
multi-touch sensor system realizes high-speed and
high-precision position sensing of multiple fingers. We
have now introduced the above solution with a new
brand name called "Wacom feel IT technologies".
Others
Our CAD system for electrical engineering and mechani-
cal engineering firms specializes in the design of electri-
cal appliances and control equipment. Our DJ interface
device enables a whole new performance style for
professional users.
Working in the film and concept design field since 1997 there hasn't
been a working day gone by where Ryan Church hasn’t been using his
Wacom tablet. At the Skywalker Ranch during Episode 2 & 3 of Star
Wars he worked with his trusty light gray professional tablet, on the
production of James Cameron’s Avatar he used a fashionable purple
Intuos2 and on Star Trek he upgraded to the slick graphite gray Intuos3.
“Wacom tablets are used in all stages of the production of 3D/Live
action feature films, from initial concepts to photorealistic illustration and
on to creation, painting, texturing and lighting of these assets. I see this
trend increasing, there are a lot of existing software packages I can see
being improved with a tablet interface” says Church.
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Tablet Product Lines
Our professional tablets – Intuos4
Throughout the world, our professional range is unrivalled and acknowledged
to be an industry standard with our unique technology, high performance and
quality. It has also been highly acclaimed by our customers: those profes-
sionals who create inspirational movies, animation, digital art, advertisements
and web designs. The Intuos4, enjoys a high reputation for delivering new
product design techniques, incorporating universal design and ergonomics,
as well as for being a design tool that offers high productivity to professional
users.
Our consumer tablets - Bamboo
Bamboo, our consumer family of tablets, provides a natural-to-use tool for
expressing creative ideas and communicating with friends, colleagues, and
family through social networks in a personal way. Wacom has used all of our
pen-based skill and experience from our professional products to create
Bamboo, additionally expanded models combining pen and touch technol-
ogy. Bamboo can be used and enjoyed on Mac OS, Windows XP, Vista, and
7, and not only enables users to intuitively draw, paint, sketch, and retouch
digital photographs, but also simplifies for everyone navigating around the
computer and the Internet. To sum it up, Bamboo is a new and fun way of
working with a computer.
Our interactive displays – Cintiq & DT/PL
Providing the freedom to work with the pen directly on screen, our interactive
pen displays come in two ranges: the Cintiq, which is designed for profes-
sional graphic artists, and the DT/PL Series, which is for more general users.
Cintiq interactive pen displays include high performance and functionality
and are used by many professionals from photographers to car designers.
Not just for the graphics market, these pen tablets are also invaluable for a
variety of additional tasks such as medical recording, educational systems,
digital signatures, and order processing.
Ryan Church
Art director and concept designer of Avatar major works