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The market for hard disk drives continues to be defined by overly high prices and insufficient supply, symptoms that aren't going to be healed until the later parts of this year (2012).
People have heard or read repeatedly about how the hard disk drive unit market is in dire straits and how it will continue to ... |
11 February 2012
06:10 GMT |
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The hard disk drive market suffered severely from the floods that struck Thailand late last year (2011), but Western Digital, the company most seriously affected, may just recover faster than originally expected.
According to the company's most recent words on the matter, full recovery is expected to happen by... |
4 February 2012
03:45 GMT |
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There seems to be a rather unfortunate trend going on in the IT field, that of steadily growing prices, and it is motherboards that are taking their turn at it.
Motherboards are one of the two essential components of any computer (the other being the CPU), but they are about to give prospective buyers a reason to b... |
3 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Seagate recently published its financial results for the latest quarter and, since it was on the subject, it talked a bit about the HDD shortage and how it would go from there.
People may remember that, back in January, 2012, Hitachi said it didn't expect the supply of HDD to fully recover until late this year... |
2 February 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Those who believe that SSD sales will be lackluster have already said their piece, so SanDisk is taking its turn at painting a brighter picture for the storage devices.
SanDisk is one of the primary suppliers of solid state drives around the world, so it makes sense that it would look at its future in the most opti... |
26 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Western Digital is not nearly as convinced as NAND Flash storage makers that the ultrabook market will greatly boost SSD sales. Western Digital reportedly stated, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts, that solid state drives sales wouldn't rise nearly as fast as some believed. One w... |
25 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Since this is basically still the beginning of the new year, estimates in regards to sales and marketing evolution are coming out one after another, and ultrabooks haven't been overlooked. Juniper Research has just published what it expects to happen on the ultrabook market over the next half a decade, even dr... |
24 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Acer continues to be one of the more determined makers of mobile personal computers, having decided to be quite proactive on the ultrabook market. Digitimes continues to periodically provide rumors and reports about some of the companies on the IT market. It so happens that one of its most recent entries has to do... |
19 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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The latest episode of the flooded HDD market saga is now in play, Hitachi being the main character this time.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) estimates that normal HDD supply will take a long time in coming.
Even though all those involved are doing their best to deal with the consequences of the Thai floo... |
14 January 2012
06:53 GMT |
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There have been rumors that Acer is thinking about drastically changing its business outlook and abandoning some of its most recent ventures.
More precisely, the web has been murmuring that the company is going to back out of the tablet and smartphone business.
Digitimes now says that Acer Founder Stan Shih himse... |
27 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Since the year 2011 is ending, rumors, reports and announcements about what IT players expect from 2012 are trickling in and as part of quite the steady stream too. This time around, it is ASRock's probable fate that users can catch a glimpse of. The company itself set the shipment target for next year, or at... |
23 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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We already mentioned how IBM had posted a video about its initiatives, and we even put it up here for you to check it out if you missed out on it.
We figured that, besides the whole mind-controlled phones and computers bit, the energy recycling project could use a special mention, so here we are.
IBM plans to make ... |
20 December 2011
06:02 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time before the HDMI interface caught on for real and, sure enough, here it is just about ready to reach a major sales milestone in just a few years.It appears that, having already secured its place on the digital television segment, the HDMI interface is growing in adoption in every other ma... |
15 December 2011
11:17 GMT |
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This is one move that other companies might end up following starting next year.
Acer just decided, if Digitimes is to be believed (and the news and rumor site often is, even if it is wrong about things once in a while), that it was time to simplify its product lineup.
As such, it will reduce its number of product ... |
15 December 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Looks like tablet makers and analysts may have been a little bit too hopeful in regards to the tablet market, if sales figures compiled by IDC are any indication.
For the third quarter of 2011, it was believed that sales of slates would be of 19.2 million.
Now, though, IDC found that the mark was missed by a perce... |
15 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Intel may have claimed that the hard disk drive unit shortage is responsible for its recent revision of its financial expectations for the fourth quarter of 2011, but not everyone is convinced.
Investment firm Nomura Equity Research actually believes there is much more to the lower financial expectations than meets... |
15 December 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Looks like Intel is going to feel some aftereffects from how HDDs are going to sell less, because it just announced a downward adjustment of its Q4 2011 revenue forecast.
Hard drives will be short because of the floods in Thailand, which affected many factories, so PCs will sell less and, thus, so will CPUs (central... |
12 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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So far, tablets have mostly hanged on to the 7-inch and 10.1-inch form factors, but 2012 may finally see some more options cropping up.
Reports have been coming in about the tablet market and what may or may not happen to it next year.
The general consensus is that it will keep growing and amassing customers, eve... |
9 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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After a time of leadership on the market of all-in-one personal computers, Apple could be forced to cede victory to a different company in 2012.
Apple is a company that sells products primarily to those customers with financial income to spare.
As such, with all-in-one systems offering just compactness as an incen... |
8 December 2011
08:56 GMT |
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If you haven't been keeping track, Acer has been going a bit downhill in terms of finances lately, for several consecutive quarters actually. It is this that kept pushing it lower on the worldwide top PC makers list (the one Lenovo is almost ready to lead). One reason was Acer's reliance on netbooks and... |
5 December 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Again, analysts are fussing over the Amazon Kindle Fire, with iSuppli taking its turn at stating how likely it is to finally dethrone the iPad as top-selling tablet.
Amazon's 7-inch device, which costs about $199 (about 149 EUR), hasn't been around for more than two weeks or so.
Nonetheless, it has prov... |
2 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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It was clear enough that the global economy wasn't going to allow for spectacular shipment levels over the holidays, but the whole situation appears to be more dire than presumed.
The 2011 winter holidays may just go by without any visible rise in PC shipments and sales.
In fact, according to rumors, PC make... |
1 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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After years of economic woes for the whole world, almost everyone is looking for signs that things are improving, but PC makers say black Friday is not one of them.
In fact, PC players say that, despite Black Friday apparently making things seem less dire, the economy hasn't actually begun to recover.
For tho... |
30 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Companies have been playing a game of back and forth in regards to the status of the HDD market, so it was just a matter of time before the inevitable happened and optimism got replaced with pessimism. Again.
The Thai floods are old news by this point, even though the damage they caused, in terms of human lif... |
29 November 2011
09:34 GMT |
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People may or may not be getting fed up with the constant laments regarding the HDD market, but something so disruptive is bound to get media coverage, so here it is again, another report on the matter.
This time, we aren't saying that HDDs got even more expensive than before. We already saw the 'official... |
28 November 2011
04:59 GMT |
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As the year draws to a close, so, too, must the financial calculations of corporations, which means that, whether through official or unofficial channels, the performance of companies, in this case ASUS, will become known.
Digitimes relayed some of what its ever anonymous sources were able to procure in terms of co... |
25 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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It will happen more slowly that originally expected, but power management chips are going to see increasing sales and, thus, will lead to higher revenue.
The automotive, solar and wind turbine markets, as well as motor controls, are considered the most promising markets for power management semiconductors.
Also, ... |
23 November 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Anyone wondering just how much consumers had taken to Smart TVs will get their answer, or got it a while ago but are now getting a confirmation that yes, Smart TVs are quite successful and will continue to be.
According to a new report, Smart TVs are going to snatch a fifth of the worldwide TV market in 2012.
Tha... |
23 November 2011
07:39 GMT |
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Yet again hard disk drives are being looked at by the media, though this time it seems they are being portrayed in a more promising light than the past month or so. Not that they are in any way suffering from some degradation that reduces their marketing appeal, not in the strict sense. They continue to be the ma... |
22 November 2011
11:12 GMT |
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One wouldn't expect this, not so soon after the recent news from Intel anyway, but motherboard makers are losing optimism in regards to product sales for this quarter.
Intel just launched the Sandy Bridge-E series of CPUs (central processing units).
Featuring the LGA2011 socket, they are the latest and great... |
14 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Anyone worrying that tablets may be losing their groove can sit back and relax because at least one analyst thinks shipment levels will rise massively in 2012.
The way things are going, some might start to think that maybe tablets aren't going to keep growing in sales much.
After all, the fourth quarter is s... |
11 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Acer may expect its revenues to drop in the fourth quarter of 2011 because of the HDD shortage that will cut PC shipments, but it still expects ultrabooks to reach the expected sales figure.
Acer said that it wants sales of 250,000-300,000 ultrabooks in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Them not relying on HDDs at all ... |
11 November 2011
10:27 GMT |
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) hasn't been slacking off and, instead, conducted some research into what will happen to the worldwide WiFi coverage over the course of what remains of this first half of the second decade of the third millennium.WiFi is getting support on pretty much every PC nowadays, espe... |
9 November 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may not have impressed anyone with their shipment levels yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to do it later.
It is the belief of IHS iSuppli that ultrabooks will rapidly catch on once they really start shipping next year.
This prediction is in something of a stark contrast with the i... |
8 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Even with new display sizes being developed and marketed, there are high chances that 2011 will become the first year when LCD TVs sell less than in the previous one.
It appears that oversupply concerns are great enough that some people, market watchers as Digitmes calls them, aren't very optimistic about 2011... |
8 November 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Apple has many followers, so it stands to reason that there will be many people saying that there is no way the iPad will ever stop being number one in terms of sales, but J. Gold Associates disagrees.
These days, Apple's iPad is constantly being pitted against the entirety of the Android tablet crowd.
Of cou... |
4 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Since time is moving along, reports about what has happened or what may come on the IT market are obviously going to show up, and this time it is the LCD TV market that is getting a prognosis.The next year is one that, most likely, will show highly mixed results in terms of IT sales.LCD TVs are one of the industry&#... |
3 November 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Computing has become an intrinsic part of society, and there aren't many better way to figure out just how deeply IT is affecting the world than by looking at just how much money will be spent on it in the coming years. Next year, the world will invest a whole lot of money in the sustainment, enhancement and a... |
18 October 2011
04:11 GMT |
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After several announcements about e-book reading devices, market watchers have outlined their latest expectations in regards to the e-reader market.
E-readers are those compact, portable gadgets that people use to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc. in electronic format, and not only.
Since people like to... |
10 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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People tempted to forget about e-readers should not ignore this market, as reports say that the segment will prove quite lucrative for everyone involved.
E-readers were, at one point, a sort of wonder-child of bookstore chains and anyone who had any collection of digitized book content to speak of.
While prov... |
3 October 2011
09:09 GMT |
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Analysts again stepped up to state the fact that, despite the premature assumptions of certain parties, there is no way tablets will remove laptops from the picture any time soon.
People might not have noticed it, but the whole hype surrounding the tablet market is more or less identical to how netbooks were rece... |
30 September 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Whether or not the Kindle Fire becomes a best-seller like its e-reader predecessor is still up in the air, but certain parties, in this case Strategy Analytics, definitely seem to think it will.
About two days ago, we wrote that Amazon had finally launched the Kindle Fire tablet, though this was just one of its a... |
30 September 2011
05:56 GMT |
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There have been multiple occasions where analysts looked into the future of optical media and the latest such occurrence has In-Stat as the one responsible, the prediction being one that isn't too favorable to the DVD.
HDTVs may not be too widespread now, but they will definitely account for more and more of... |
30 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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That ultrabooks will push back the tablet onslaught is the main hope of PC players, but there wasn't much assurance that this will happen, and there still isn't, though hopes seem to be on the verge of fulfillment.
The reason for the appearance of ultrabooks is, quite simply, the media tablet segment.
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29 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Analysts have been speaking a lot about PCs and tablets lately, but there are other items that are poised to see massive growth over the next decade or so, like lithium ion batteries.Analysts have reached the conclusion that smart power grids will be a major market for lithium ion batteries.A smart grid is a utility... |
24 September 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Those who were wondering just what the odds were of the tablet market going through some radical changes have finally gotten their answer, and it is a negative one.
The Apple iPad has been in the lead of the tablet segment ever since it stopped being the only one of its kind.
Companies did hope that Android and... |
23 September 2011
08:14 GMT |
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The tablet market is getting ready to welcome an invention from Amazon, but this doesn't mean that there aren't any concerns as to whether or not there is a good enough chance for the item to thrive.
The media tablet segment of the IT industry is a very young one, having truly consolidated itself earlie... |
22 September 2011
07:34 GMT |
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One may have thought that the worst of the recession has passed, but this doesn't apply to Europe, not exactly, and the worldwide IT industry is, even now, suffering, as found by analysts.
Market analysts no doubt love it when they can say one or more fields of the industry are doing well.
Unfortunately, t... |
22 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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IT companies are always setting sales goals, and ASUS seems to be exceeding is own, though this hasn't, for a while, actually done much visible good to its finances, all things considered.
Those keeping track of things on the PC market may have learned of the fairly underwhelming results of the past half a y... |
20 September 2011
06:06 GMT |
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The tablet PC market is one segment of the IT industry which, according to recent reports, Lenovo means to acquire a significant stake in as quickly as possible.
The exact classification of tablet-type devices into tablet PCs, media slates or other monikers is still somewhat vague.
Still, they at least can be ... |
19 September 2011
08:10 GMT |
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