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Compaq already no. 2 in UK workstations - DQ
News Compaq took a 16 per cent share of total unit shipments when RISC/Unix workstations are included in the figures, or the number one position for Pentium Pro/Windows NT-based workstations, with 28.1 per cent of unit shipments.
[March 5, 1997, 11:57]
HP sues Acer in patent clash
News HP leads the world in PC shipments. Acer is currently the fourth most popular PC company in the world, as measured by market share, but it has been growing over the last several quarters. In a clash between two of the world's biggest computer...
[March 28, 2007, 8:39]
Centrino driving profits for Intel
News Reports this week from IDC and Gartner noted that demand for notebooks and low-cost computers led to higher-than-expected PC shipments in the second quarter of 2005. Intel's latest notebook PC platform, formerly code-named Sonoma, is based on the...
[July 20, 2005, 9:55]
Big Blue backs beige boxes
News In the third quarter, the tech giant accounted for 5.3 percent of worldwide PC shipments, while Dell and Hewlett-Packard accounted for 15.3 percent and 15.1 percent, respectively. Despite some past ambivalence about the PC market, IBM once again is...
[November 19, 2003, 15:30]
AMD cuts chip prices
News PC shipments exceeded expectations in the second quarter, although some of the potential gain was sapped by price cuts. The PC industry and chipmakers are both gearing up for the back-to-school season, the second most busy for PC makers.
[August 2, 2005, 9:25]
Intel chip boosts notebooks over 2GHz
News Unit sales of the portable machines grew by 6.1 percent during the second quarter compared with the same period last year, according to Gartner, while overall PC shipments declined by 1 percent. The new chip may only boost the Pentium 4-M by 200MHz...
[September 16, 2002, 7:30]
CDT to file complaint over Intel ID chip
News While Junkbusters.com is asking PC makers to halt shipments, the CDT has merely asked them to turn off the processor ID in the basic system instructions, known as BIOS. It claimed that at least one major PC maker, IBM, has agreed to disable the ID...
[February 26, 1999, 16:57]
AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
News In a statement on Friday, John Spooner, senior analyst at Technology Business Research (TBR), said AMD enjoyed stronger-than-expected processor unit shipments in the first half of 2008, as a result of a healthy global PC market — driven by strong...
[July 21, 2008, 11:24]
Memory market edges up
News Price increases, combined with predicted seasonal increases of PC shipments, should boost the DRAM market during the third and fourth quarters. It's been a tough several years for DRAM makers, who cut prices to the bone during the economic and PC...
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
Dell buoyant in Q3
News The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker on Thursday posted double-digit third-quarter revenue and profit increases thanks to higher gross margins and unit shipments that jumped 22 percent since the same period a year ago.
[November 12, 2004, 11:10]
Microsoft pushes pay-as-you-go computing
News Total shipments of Starter have been modest, with 100,000 copies sold as of last July. With FlexGo, consumers can scale back their PC use in months that they have less money, rather than having to default on their purchase.
[May 22, 2006, 16:25]
Dell's dilemma: Living up to its own reputation
News In worldwide PC shipments, Dell gained two percentage points during the fourth quarter and now is expected to pass Compaq Computer during the first quarter. PC maker Dell will deliver its fourth-quarter results after the market closes Thursday.
[February 15, 2001, 15:10]
Dell Q4 earnings in line with lowered estimates
News Total PC shipments jumped 36 percent from the same quarter in the previous year and 50 percent for the fiscal year. For the fiscal year, the PC maker earned $1.9bn (£1.2bn), or 68 cents (40p) a share on sales of $25.3bn (£15.6bn), which was up from...
[February 14, 2000, 16:30]
Dell harnesses Red Flag for Chinese ambitions
News Right now, Dell ranks behind only Lenovo (formerly Legend) in PC shipments, according to Michael Dell. Although direct sales is still something of a foreign concept in China, Dell has become one of the largest multinational PC makers in the country.
[December 5, 2003, 10:05]
Acer snaps up Gateway
News Gateway's shipments dropped off quickly. When Acer agreed on Monday to purchase the American PC maker Gateway, it wasn't a huge surprise, since more than a few pundits would say Gateway's acquisition has been several years overdue.
[August 28, 2007, 8:07]
Symbian signs on Samsung as it surges to No. 1 spot
News The agreement comes at a good time for Symbian, with shipments of Nokia's Symbian OS-based 7650 handset boosting the operating system above rivals such as Palm OS and Pocket PC in the European marketplace for the third quarter.
[October 21, 2002, 15:57]
Intel faces delays to 0.13 micron move
News Last week SVG Lithography, based in Connecticut in the US, told industry journal Semiconductor Business News it would delay shipments of its Micrascan V 193-nanometer wavelength lithography system by three to four months.
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Intel searching for next big thing
News PC shipments are still growing at a relatively steady pace, especially in markets outside the US and Western Europe, but they aren't growing at a pace that makes Wall Street giddy. Later in the week, other Intel executives are expected to highlight...
[September 17, 2007, 17:19]
Intel gains market share on AMD's back
News In terms of units, PC processor shipments dropped from 8 million in the first quarter to around 6 million. Intel gained two percentage points of market share in the processor market in the second quarter and six percentage points compared with a...
[July 31, 2002, 8:11]
Apple tries to woo Windows defectors
News During the third quarter, US PC shipments plummeted nearly 19 percent year over year, according to Dataquest, which expects little upturn in the fourth quarter. But through its PC partners, such as Gateway and Sony, Microsoft is communicating a...
[November 19, 2001, 12:38]
