Study Five Year Forecasts for the Computer Hardware Industry in Japan
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50346)  has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Computer  Hardware in Japan to their offering.
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Consumers thinking about buying a new personal computer in 2005 might be better off putting off their purchase until 2006. With few major changes in PC hardware or software due over the next year, the PC of 2005 is likely to look awfully similar to the PC of today.
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Spending in Eastern Europe and Asia is expected to lead a recovery in the global technology market over the next three years, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
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Taiwanese PC vendor Acer predicts its PC shipments will grow as much as 35 percent this year led by a strong notebook PC market, a pace of growth that could see the company challenge U.S. rivals by the end of this year.Acer&#39;s revenue grew 25 percent last year to NT$461.7 billion (US$14.42 billion) and the company made inroads to the world&#39;s largest PC market, the U.S., by acquiring Gateway. The revenue figure is preliminary and only includes Gateway&#39;s last two and a half months of the year because the merger process took place late in the year.Acer bought Gateway&#160;for US$710 million last year.But the figures and PC shipments had a tremendous impact on Acer&#39;s global PC rankings in the final three months of 2007.The company took a solid third place in global PC shipments last year,&#160;topping Chinese rival Lenovo and gaining ground on Dell. Acer&#39;s global PC shipment market share during the fourth quarter of 2007 reached 9.6 percent in the fourth quarter, up 60 percent over the same time a year earlier, according to IDC, the industry researcher.Lenovo, which had been jockeying for third place with Acer all year, fell to fourth with a 7.5 percent share of the global market. HP retained its first place ranking with 19 percent market share, while Dell remained firmly in second place at 14.6 percent.&quot;Combined Acer/Gateway growth continued to be the fastest among the top vendors and is a very solid performance for the first quarter of merged operations,&quot; IDC said in a statement. &quot;Acer also clearly established itself as the third largest vendor, overtaking Lenovo, and seems to be handling the Gateway integration quickly,&quot; the statement says.This year, Acer forecast its PC shipments overall will rise between 30 percent and 35 percent, led by 40 percent shipment growth in notebook PCs. Such strong growth could help the company challenge Dell, which saw its PC shipments grow only 1.7 percent in 2007, according to figures from Gartner. The market researcher put Acer&#39;s shipment growth last year at 32.9 percent for the year.Acer&#39;s chairman, J.T. Wang, predicted last October that Acer could take up to a 12 percent share of the global PC market, putting it in the position to challenge Dell.Acer&#39;s net profit was NT$12.9 billion in 2007, up from NT$10.2 billion a year earlier. The company&#39;s 2007 figures are all preliminary, Acer said. Final results will be published later.&#160;
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Chipmakers are again investing heavily to avoid the mistakes of the 1990s. But can they compete with overseas rivals and avoid a glut?
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Japanâs once vaunted electronics industry has downsized to survive global competition, and is inadvertently setting off a brain drain.
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(InfoWorld) - The PC is changing. Once simply a computer with spreadsheets for the family budget and games for the kids, home PCs are rapidly evolving into home entertainment systems, equipped with digital television tuners, high-definition displays, and other features drawn from consumer electronics. Globally, media PCs represent a fraction -- just 5 percent -- of desktop computer sales, said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, during a speech at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. While media PC sales are relatively small at present, they will represent 30 percent of desktop sales by 2008, he said. While the rest of the world slowly warms to media PCs, the systems already dominate computer sales in Japan. "More than 60 percent of desktops sold in Japan today are already some kind of media PC," he said. Media PCs are big sellers in Japan because most homes here are small, putting a premium on the use of space. As a result, home PCs usually double as an entertainment system, making computers with these features popular among end users. This love affair with the media PC was readily apparent at Ceatec, where local PC makers showed off their newest products. At NEC's booth, the companyÂ showed off its Valuestar X PC, which will be available later this year for Â¥543,000 ($4,612). Based on a 3.4GHz Intel processor, the water-cooled PC offers dual 250GB hard drives, a Blu-ray disc drive, and a 20-inch widescreen LCD (liquid crystal display). At Sony's booth, the companyÂ showed several Vaio PC modelsÂ that had home-entertainment capabilities. One of them, the Vaio Type L VGC-LA915 integrates the components of a computer into the back of a 19-inch widescreen LCD (liquid crystal display) screen. The computer, which is priced at Â¥359,800 includes a Blu-ray Disc drive and remote control for watching high-definition movies. A smaller version with a 15.4-inch display, includes an attached keyboard that can be folded up against the display to save space. In addition to packing consumer-electronics features into their latest products, Japanese PC makers are also looking ahead, playing with new designs further tailored to the interests of end-users.Â One such design is Fujitsu's Turn Table PC, which adds the ability for DJs to spin and scratch using digital media files. The design, which may never enter production, calls for a 20-inch display that can be folded down to use the turn-table function. Outside of Japan, sales of media PCs will likely be driven by factors other than a desire to maximize the use of space in a home, said market analyst IDC in a recent report. Sales of media PCs will take off in the U.S. once a wider variety of content, especially video, is made available to end-users, it said. "The potential for that success is evidenced by iTunes' sale of 125,000 Disney movies in the first six days of its service offering," the report said, referring to Apple Computer's recently introduced video download service. Shipments of media PCs are expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 41 percent through 2010, when vendors will ship 27.5 million units, IDC said. This year, PC makers will ship 5.9 million media PCs, worth around $6 billion, it said.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50275)  has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Computer  Hardware in Belgium to their offering.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50016)  has announced the addition of "Computer  Hardware in China" to their offering.
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The number of companies building processors is likely to shrink, researcher says.
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The global personal computer market is expected to grow at a modest pace in 2005 as the economic recovery slows, according to a report Wednesday by a market research firm.
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By George Hsu  Taiwan stocks, laggards in Asia since 2001, may catch up with markets elsewhere in the region next year as new products spur demand for video game consoles, computers and semiconductors.
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Three more Taiwanese chip makers plan to&#160;spend significantly less money on new factories and equipment&#160;this year as a DRAM (dynamic RAM) glut and uncertainty about the global economy weigh.Lower capital spending forecasts in the chip industry are a sign the global IT industry is on edge about future demand. Analysts have expected DRAM makers to cut back on spending for a long time due to&#160;falling chip prices. Prices for mainstream DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) chips remain below production costs, and most DRAM makers have reported losses for the fourth quarter.Powerchip Semiconductor, Taiwan&#39;s largest memory chip maker, Wednesday said it plans to spend NT$35.1 billion (US$1.09 billion) on new chip factories, technology and production line equipment this year, less than half the NT$86.3 billion it spent last year.Powerchip&#39;s smaller rival on the island, ProMOS Technologies, also more than halved its projected 2008 capital spending to US$800 million, down from US$1.84 billion last year. The company also put the expansion of its fourth 12-inch factory on hold pending a rebound in the DRAM market.United Microelectronics (UMC), the world&#39;s second largest contract chip maker, forecast its 2008 capital spending at US$500 million to US$700 million, down from US$900 million last year.The company&#39;s customers have turned cautious due to global economic worries, said Jackson Hu, CEO of UMC, at an investors&#39; conference in Taipei on Wednesday. The company forecast its chip shipments will decline as much as 15 percent in the first quarter, compared to the fourth quarter of last year as chip demand weakens, particularly for communications chips.Global semiconductor equipment spending is forecast to fall 9.9 percent to US$40.3 billion this year, from US$44.8 billion last year, according to Gartner. The market researcher blamed over-investment by DRAM makers in 2007 for the cutback in semiconductor capital spending this year. Concerns about a U.S. economic recession have also put chip makers in a cautious mood, Gartner said in a report published early this month.&#160;
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Japanâs machinery orders rose in January, the most in five months, signaling that capital spending will keep fueling the economy. Nongovernment machinery orders, excluding shipping and utilities, rose a seasonally adjusted 3.9 percent, to 1.09 trillion yen ($9.4 billion), from December, when they fell 0.7 percent, according to a Cabinet Office report.
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Worldwide sales of computer chips are expected to set a record this year, according to the San Jose, Calif.-based trade group Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Home-entertainment PCs, now dominant in Japan, to reach 30 percent of worldwide market by 2008.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c58229)  has announced the addition of Other Asian - Pacific Countries: Multi  Chip Modules (MCM) and Hybrid Circuits Market, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2011  to their offering.