The market for digital television (DTV) semiconductors pushed past the $5 billion mark in 2007 buoyed primarily by the growth wave in digital TV technology and Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). With LCD and plasma display panel (PDP) TV market share pushing past the 50 percent level in 2008, the forecast for DTV is expected to continue to grow at a rapid rate. As a result, semiconductor equipment, semiconductor manufacturing and semiconductor technology will see an equally impressive growth spurt. iSuppli industrial market research offers manufacturing resource planning in this dynamic market by combining forecasts for TV production by technology, screen size, and region with an evolving set of DTV Bill of Materials (BoM) models and LCD cost models, broken out by function, to analyze the semiconductor opportunity.