Sunday, January 23, 2011

Tablet PC experience the impact of sluggish growth to the end of the global PC

 By consumer interest in touch-screen tablet PC heating due to the traditional PC market share is being further eroded.

Recently, global market research firm IDC and Gartner released the global PC market, the report also shows that the fourth quarter of 2010, the global PC market with lower sales appear only single-digit growth, the increase in lower than expected. PC shipments were 93.5 million units and 92.1 million units, representing an increase of respectively 2.7% and 3.1%.

Q4 worldwide PC volume grew 2.7%, well below the 5.5% previously expected. The Gartner's data showed, in the fourth quarter global PC shipments grew 3.1%, 4.8% lower than the company previously expected. HP ranked first sold 5.72 million computers, Dell came in second 4.37 million PCs sold. Other PC makers sold 4.43 million computers.

analysts pointed out that throughout 2010 the top five vendors in the world, only Lenovo and Toshiba's full-year market growth over the PC market, the average annual growth rate.

Gartner principal analyst Kitagawa MEGA promoter, said: PC produced a competition. The Gartner Data is displayed in the fourth quarter is the biggest loss of the macro, the company's U.S. shipments in the fourth quarter to drop more than 30% year on year, because the company had sales growth came from the Internet, and such Products currently facing the most direct Tablet PC market competition.

this, analysts say, with a new batch of Samsung and other flat products GalaxyTab appeared in 2011 Tablet PC market will continue to impact on traditional PC. Therefore, many PC makers hope to ride out the worst first half of 2011, do not expect a rapid growth.

bring disaster to PC parts business

with the Tablet PC's temperature, the traditional PC industry related fields are more and more of.

The sales have been seriously affected. said that in addition to mechanical hard drives, the memory companies are not spared. Recently, the memory manufacturer Transcend acceptance of information technology-related charge of Times reporters, said the status of the current oversupply of memory can not be attributed solely to suppliers. More and more consumers to use Tablet PC has become an indisputable fact that, with the increasing number of flat products, the demand for memory chips will be further reduced. Correspondingly, the mobile device uses the RAM demand growth.

R & D and IT equipment manufacturers) is an extreme example, they put down early in the memory business, will focus on solid-state hard drive into. related areas severely affected.

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