Worldwide PC shipments, prices up
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Blog: Gartner forecast says while PC shipments worldwide will increase more than previously thought, average selling price should continue to drop after this year's brief bump.
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Worldwide shipments of personal computers rose strongly in the second quarter due to growing demand in Asia and unexpected strength in the U.S.
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Unveils P4-speed successor A Chinese PC vendor has begun shipping a box with its homegrown Godson CPU, with a price tag of between $175 to $200. Thanks to current exchange rates, that's under Â£100. Eventually, though, OEM ZhongKe Menglan Electronics expects to sell the unit for $125.â¦
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Dell Inc. expects shipments of personal computers, notebooks and servers in Asia, excluding China, Japan and South Korea, to grow almost 20 percent in 2007.
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Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew nearly 12 percent in the third quarter, driven by strong European sales and rising commercial demand, according to IDC, a research company that tracks shipments.    A PC shipments report released Monday by another firm, Gartner, Inc., reported quarterly growth of 9.7 percent, with lower-than-expected U.S...
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(InfoWorld) - Laptop PC shipments by the world's two largest contract makers surged in June, rebounding fromÂ a lull in April and part of MayÂ as systems makers awaited theÂ launch of Intel's Santa Rosa laptop PC chips, an upgrade to its popular Centrino package. Quanta Computer, the biggest contract notebook maker, said it shipped 2.8 million laptops in June, up sharply from 2.4 million in May and 2.2 million in April. Taiwanese rival Compal Electronics, shipped 1.77 million laptops in June, its third-highest figure ever for a single month, and up from 1.65 million in May and 1.70 million in April. The stronger shipment figures show the laptop PC market has surged again after systems makers and users awaited the new Intel chips. Market researchers had expected users to upgrade to new laptop PCs afterÂ the launch of Santa Rosa, when they could pick up the latest laptop PC hardware along with the Windows Vista OS. Intel launched its fourth generation Centrino wireless chip package on May 9, abandoning the Santa Rosa code name in favor of its marketing names, Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro. The package of chips increases wireless Internet and processing speeds in notebook PCs when compared to the previous Intel Centrino package. The Duo and Pro versions both come with Intel dual-core microprocessors, but the Centrino Pro is targeted at laptops for business users. It carries Intel vPro software, which helps corporate IT departments manage fleets of laptop PCs. At the time, Intel said it expected over 230 new laptop and desktop PCs to be built around the new chip package this year. Quanta and Compal, which make notebook PCs and other products for customers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Acer, also reported higher revenue for the month. Quanta's June revenue rose 69 percent year-over-year to NT$65.42 billion (US$1.99 billion), while Compal's increased 61 percent to NT$36.28 billion. Â
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Growth of PC shipments in the U.S. nearly doubles at the end of 2007 due to the expansion into brick-and-mortar stores.
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Makers of PCs will ship 191.4 million units in 2004, a 13.4 percent increase from a year ago, according to research company iSuppli.
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Business demand for PCs will result in higher than anticipated growth of the sector for the second half of the year. Analyst IDC has revised its predictions having witnessed strong commercial demand for PCs
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Exports from Taiwan jumped 17.9 percent in January on demand from China for electronics.  Overseas shipments rose to $19.9 billion, the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance said Wednesday in a statement. It was nearly double the 9.1 percent gain in December.
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(InfoWorld) - Some of Taiwan's DRAM makers have reported record monthly sales for August, highlighting an increase in DRAM prices that could continue in the months ahead. The higher prices are unlikely to affectÂ PC pricesÂ thanks to the stiff competition among system vendors and makers of other types of components, such as microprocessors. But users who want some extra DRAM for their PCs could find themselves handing over a bit more money than before. Nanya Technology, Powerchip Semiconductor, and ProMOS Technologies all reported record sales for August this week. The higher sales stem partly from an increase in PC sales in some parts of the world. That increase drives up prices for DRAM, since most of the chips -- around three quarters of the global supply -- end up in PCs. Analysts say PC demand could stay robust for the next several months, as back-to-school demand and holiday demand are followed by the launch of Microsoft's new operating system, Vista. That could keep prices for DRAM high. The spot price Tuesday for the most widely used DRAM, 512Mb DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) chips, is around US$6.00, according to DRAMeXchange Technology. Crystal Lee, a memory chip industry analyst at ABN AMRO AsiaÂ in Taipei, forecasts that prices for the chips will remain at or near that level in coming months. Powerchip and ProMOS have been improving their ability to make chips using 90-nanometer production technology, which allows companies to make chips that are smaller, more powerful and more energy efficient. It can also help them reduce costs, because making smaller chips allows their production lines to churn out more chips using the same raw materials. Nanya's sales for August rose 32 percent to NT$6.62 billion, a new all-time high for the chip maker, the company said Tuesday. A day earlier, Powerchip Semiconductor said its sales for August rose to NT$8.03 billion (US$245 million), up from NT$4.45 billion in the same month last year. The figure was also 14 percent higher than July, due to higher prices for the chips and increased output at factories. It was the company's fifth straight historical high. ProMOS's sales hit NT$6.01 billion last month, up from NT$2.53 billion during the same time a year ago, and 15 percent higher than July. "DRAM contract and spot prices continued to rise last month, but we also benefitted from our 90 nanometer process," said Ben Tseng, spokesman for ProMOS.
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Laptop PC shipments by the world&#39;s two largest contract makers surged in June, rebounding from a lull in April and part of May as systems makers awaited the launch of Intel Corp.&#39;s Santa Rosa laptop PC chips, an upgrade to its popular Centrino package.
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By Jason Tan  COMPUTEX, the world's secondlargest IT trade fair, ended its five- day show in Taipei last week, ushering in a total of 33,000 foreign buyers, up 10 per cent from last year.
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Predictions are based on strong sales of Vista-equipped PCs and lower prices due to a CPU price war.
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Microsoft has introduced pricier higher-end versions, as other PC components have fallen in price. So how does it all add up?
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PC shipments have started to ease off, as expected, but the worldwide PC market remained fairly strong in the third quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner.
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IDC projects that worldwide PC shipments will increase by 16.7% in the fourth quarter of this year, bolstered by the strong laptop sales.