Tablet Shipments To Outpace PC by 2015, reach 500 million

Tablet sales will hit nearly 500 million units a year by 2015, according to a new report by BI Intelligence.

Tablet sales in 2015 will exceed the number of PCs currently sold per year (~360 million) and make tablets a $100+ billion market. The forecast, which includes e-readers, predicts that tablet sales will grow at better than a 50% compound annual growth rate over the next few years.The growth will be driven by falling prices combined with tablet penetration in the enterprise and education markets, as well as emerging markets.