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Earlier this month, one of the leading manufacturers of portable computer systems decided it was high time it dived into the fast evolving market of netbooks by launching the highly anticipated Inspiron Mini 9, an 8.9-inch netbook designed with ultra-portability in mind. However, it looks like the company's CEO... |
25 September 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Not long ago, word in the industry had it that Sony was planning its entrance on the increasingly demanding market of netbooks. However, since the first rumors surfaced, no other details regarding a possible Vaio netbook have been made available, which, naturally makes us wonder if all those rumors were true to start... |
16 September 2008
10:53 GMT |
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Do you want to know just how promising the netbook market really is? The answer to that is simple: just enough to make Lenovo want a share of the pie with one of its own products. Apparently, the Chinese computer manufacturer is highly interested in the emerging market - so much so that it is already considering the ... |
30 July 2008
06:26 GMT |
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It looks like the PC market can sometimes be too hard to handle, especially when you have to compete with big names such as HP, Dell or Acer. Such could also be the case with Fujitsu Siemens Computers that, according to a recent Reuters piece, may soon become history and cease to exist.The news hasn't been yet c... |
16 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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It appears that Intel is very optimistic about its business, especially when it comes down to the notebook market, one that is apparently expected to grow at a faster pace than initially believed, mostly thanks to the latest netbooks that have been released or announced by various manufacturers. Since Intel is curren... |
16 July 2008
05:33 GMT |
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System vendor Dell is currently pitching at distributing its PC offerings on the Chinese and Indian markets. According to the company's CEO and founder Michael Dell, the company experiences high demand on the Asian markets.More and more computer manufacturers are designing their products for the Chinese market. ... |
21 March 2008
21:06 GMT |
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The DRAM industry has always been sitting on quicksands and it has been sinking at a higher rate than it has recovered, but it seems like January was a good time for memory chip business, as chip sales have just beat the industry's expectations. The three-month period of global chip sales ended with revenue of $... |
3 March 2008
11:51 GMT |
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They never quit, do they? Recently, a market trader was caught selling PlayStation 2 original boxed copies of Shrek the Third for just £10 each at a West Midlands market. The man was of course arrested and bailed pending further investigation.The stall of the 50 year-old man at Tamworth market was raided on 18th Dec... |
9 January 2008
07:15 GMT |
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China's semiconductor market has experienced a comeback after a very successful third quarter. Although semiconductor manufactures have rolled on a descending trend until now, strong sales in the third quarter are likely to give a whole revenue of 15 percent this year. The figures for the semiconductor market ar... |
13 December 2007
03:33 GMT |
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If the CPU market has a few players only, the things are completely different with the DRAM manufacturers. This area is a complex environment and each move from any competitor may severely unbalance the whole market. Apart from the competitors' moves, another thing that kills the business is overproduction. The ... |
12 December 2007
11:11 GMT |
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According to Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat organizations, Wi-Fi sales have reached this year 300 million units. The figures show an overall increase of over 41% as compared to the 2006 sales, when only 213 million chipsets were shipped. The new record would not have been possible to achieve without a strong demand in t... |
4 December 2007
12:10 GMT |
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After Quanta Computer which is the most important contract computer manufacturer in the world posted strong revenues for the past month, two other Asian hardware manufacturing companies, Lite-On and Delta, posted increased revenues too, showing the world that the Taiwan based computer industry is doing its business ... |
9 October 2007
10:53 GMT |
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This summer was a very bad time for the manufacturing companies that are active in the production of both computer memory chips and NAND flash based non-volatile memory solutions, as price tags fluctuated widely, with a general tendency of pointing downward. One of the most important computer and NAND memory chip mak... |
3 October 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Just like most industries, the computer and general electronics consumer ones are expected to post lower sales during the summer and high figures in the winter period when the Christmas shopping spree acts as a global catalyst increasing sales across the chart. This time, something went a little different as various ... |
2 October 2007
11:09 GMT |
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Wireless technology is starting to attract the big names from the traditional wired networking segment and while this may not be the best thing, it is certainly one of the facts. As the big companies are focusing their attention on the new technology, the smaller start-up outfit may get squashed or get assimilated as... |
2 October 2007
08:12 GMT |
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Networking equipment and general communication hardware manufacturing company 3Com will soon change hands as the company announced that it will be bought by two other companies, the Chinese Huawei Technologies, itself a communication equipment producer and the equity company Bain Capital.The deal is reported to have ... |
1 October 2007
08:31 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation announced that it will soon begin extended shipments of solid state drives (SSDs for short) units to computer systems integrating companies. This move comes after the storage manufacturing company successfully completed an OEM launch of its 32GB solid state drive that comes packed in the 2.5 small... |
28 September 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are bringing new weapons in their conflict as the two companies are preparing to launch yet another round of competing lines of products. As AMD is pricing its entire line of central processing units at a lower level than just about everything that is Intel made, the smaller company r... |
28 September 2007
03:36 GMT |
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The computer hardware manufacturing market is one of the most volatile segments of the entire industry and this is especially true for the branded computer systems that are made in big quantities while providing users with a rather limited set of options and customizable features. One of the companies that try really... |
26 September 2007
10:19 GMT |
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The Chinese computer manufacturing company Lenovo is not one to let its plans go awry so easily, nor does it accept defeat without a serious fight. Even as the company still has yet to completely integrate the European arm of the former IBM personal computer and notebook producing division, Lenovo still has many more... |
25 September 2007
10:56 GMT |
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Arima Computer announced that it will soon sell its computer manufacturing business and all related assets to the Flextronics company that will become one of the largest and most important contract manufacturers in the world. Not only the desktop assembly lines will be sold but the notebook ones will share the same f... |
24 September 2007
10:58 GMT |
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Gianfranco Lanci, Acer's president and chief executive officer, outlined his company's global strategy for the near future at a global press conference that took place in Madrid. This conference was aimed at shedding some light on Acer's global business strategy for the upcoming year and at the same ti... |
24 September 2007
09:52 GMT |
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As China is the largest and most heavily populated country in the world, it is also a ripe computer market for many companies and this fact leads to more and more American and European hardware manufacturers and vendors to invest in this country. The latest to announce its intention to enter the Chinese computer mark... |
24 September 2007
06:47 GMT |
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While various branches of the computer manufacturing industry are facing problems like falling prices or critical parts shortage, the demand for computer central processing units is high and rising, translating into good news for the two most important chips in the world, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. According t... |
24 September 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Random access memory manufacturing industry is going through another crisis as the market is simply overflowing with DRAM memory modules and suppliers and retail channel dealers are forced to severely cut all price tags in order to attract more customers. But problems do not stop here as several market analysts predi... |
20 September 2007
09:20 GMT |
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After some months that saw problems in various branches of the computer manufacturing industry encounter supply or very low market prices that drove hardware component shipments to very low levels, the market research firm IDC predicts that the current market trend and increasing demand for customers will drive the e... |
14 September 2007
08:36 GMT |
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It seems that Advanced Micro Devices is going in the right direction as the company finally launched their native quad core processors two days ago and already there are a lot of speculations about the increasing number of server manufacturing companies that are going to adopt them as the cores for a new generation o... |
12 September 2007
05:46 GMT |
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Graphics cards can be easily split into two large categories: discrete and integrated into the chipset cards. While until very recently discrete graphics cards were the incontestable kings of performance and efficiency and they were having a field day, now as the mobile computing systems are starting to sell better t... |
5 September 2007
09:42 GMT |
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After a number of failed attempts at dominating the Chinese mobile computing market Acer decided now to try yet another time, this time through the acquisition of a Chinese based computer manufacturing company. As Acer already established a strong presence in the United States after its decision to buy Gateway, it lo... |
5 September 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Dell has recently announced its financial results for the second fiscal quarter and the news are looking good as the company reported higher than usual revenue and profits because of favorable market trends which were coupled with high average selling prices and low costs for all kinds of hardware parts.In the middle... |
31 August 2007
09:48 GMT |
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After some months of price, demand and supply stabilization that made computer memory manufacturers and vendors happy, it looks as if the entire market is heading towards Chaos Central again as the marketing research firm iSuppli predicts. September will mark the month when the DRAM market conditions will start turni... |
29 August 2007
04:30 GMT |
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During the last year, the computer processor manufacturing company AMD encountered a series of hard bumps along its road to a new line of products. Competing against a giant company like Intel is always hard, but doing it without the necessary tools - in this case a line of products capable of smashing or at least eq... |
28 August 2007
04:49 GMT |
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Acer announced today its intentions of buying the hardware manufacturing company Gateway, the fourth largest computer producer and vendor in the United States. The definitive agreement between Acer and Gateway will lead to a better market position in the U.S. for Acer and it will create a multi brand company with rev... |
27 August 2007
08:21 GMT |
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After the European Commission officially charged Intel with unethical business practices and monopoly behavior, it is now the turn of the computer memory designer and developer Rambus to face charges of "patent ambush" as the company is accused of claiming higher than reasonable royalties from manufacturers that were... |
25 August 2007
07:43 GMT |
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Emerging markets are always important for computer manufacturers and vendors as they can find there new revenue sources and even places to vent some of the older products that are no longer demanded on the traditional markets. For well known and established companies it is important to get to every emerging market as... |
24 August 2007
06:48 GMT |
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After months and months of oscillating up and down, computer memory markets are finally getting more stable. Currently, DRAM memory transactions are rising in very small increments in China where computer system manufacturers and vendors are trying to capitalize of the soon to come Olympic Games.After a period of pri... |
24 August 2007
06:12 GMT |
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The server market is now a very lucrative business for well known and established hardware manufacturing companies like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell. Dell had recently not such a good time on that market as its main rival, HP, quickly took over almost all the business with its blade server design that is way better than the... |
24 August 2007
04:46 GMT |
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The blade server industry is a very profitable one as the demand for more advanced configurations and servers featuring increased amounts of computing power is rising and HP, the world leader of computer hardware manufacturing companies, is positioned to make the best of this market trend.HP was from the very beginni... |
23 August 2007
06:50 GMT |
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China is Nokia's most important market in terms of sales, a position that this country has managed to maintain over a long period of time. The United States used to follow on the second place, although things have now changed. India has become the second largest market for the Finnish company.Nokia has gone thro... |
23 August 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Asustek Computer, better known on the computer hardware market after its brand name of Asus, is one of the first tier hardware manufacturers and vendors in the world renowned for its mainboards and graphics cards. The company is in the laptop and notebook manufacturing business, but it never directly competed with th... |
20 August 2007
08:22 GMT |
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The computer memory market goes like all other markets through periods of expansion and contraction and while this fluctuation in small increments is normal, the situation during the last few months was far from normality. First of all the year started with some pretty high DRAM price tags all around the memory lines... |
17 August 2007
10:16 GMT |
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Notebook manufacturers and vendors announced at the beginning of the year high target shipments and record sales as the mobile computing market seemed ready to absorb all the systems thrown at it. For the first time in the history of computing, laptop and notebook shipments equaled - and in some cases even went over ... |
16 August 2007
08:56 GMT |
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Gateway announced that it continues to expand its international market by launching several computer models in China. The Asian country is one of the most powerful markets in the whole world and most important computer manufacturers and vendors are investing heavily into their presence in China because the Chinese co... |
16 August 2007
06:36 GMT |
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Best Buy who currently operates more than 800 stores in the United States is planning to open its shelves to several computer hardware manufacturers that offer business and home use computers and other hardware parts. This move could transform the retail company into a very strong competitor against Dell in the small... |
11 August 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, popularly known as AMD, announced that it will offer convertible senior notes worth $1.5 billion. The company also said that those notes are due in 2012 and that interests will be paid each year on February 15 and August 15 at a rate of 5.75% per year.According to a company's press releas... |
10 August 2007
07:51 GMT |
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The graphics chips manufacturer and vendor Nvidia reported record financial achievements as its revenues increased during the second fiscal quarter of the year. According to the company, this is a new record as the revenue came in the sum of $935.3 million, a 36 percent increase from the last quarter's revenue t... |
10 August 2007
03:59 GMT |
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Lenovo is currently one of the top computer hardware manufacturers and vendors in the world and the Chinese company is constantly expanding its market reach and status. The newest market where Lenovo hopes to gain a strong foothold is the European one that even if it doesn't expand as rapidly as the Chinese mark... |
8 August 2007
08:50 GMT |
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German chip and memory maker Infineon Technologies announced that it will lower its shares in Qimonda to less than 50 percent over the next two years. Qimonda started in 2006 as a division of Infineon Technologies that specialized in making different kinds of chips for computers and the parent company still owns the ... |
7 August 2007
03:26 GMT |
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After a power outage at a NAND chip production plant in South Korea that left Samsung with almost no flash production capabilities and the entire industry that depends on NAND chips in the air, the memory manufacturer reports that all lines are now fully operational. The incident at the Kiheung production plant, near... |
6 August 2007
05:04 GMT |
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