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Intel Sees No Let-up In Components Shortages
News Widespread shortages in PC and mobile phone components will continue for another year or even a year and a half, predicted Intel chief executive Craig Barrett at a round table meeting in Stockholm this week.
[June 23, 2000, 10:29]
Shortage: Palms Hard To Come By
News The tightness of supply of components is expected to continue for a few months, with some relief from the shortages expected in the company's June quarter, Somsak said. As a result of the parts shortages, Palm has begun buying certain components in...
[May 24, 2000, 8:37]
Pre-Christmas Rush Makes Components Scarce
News At the moment, [the shortages] haven't bothered us too much," said Leon Poole, marketing manager at direct seller Roldec. Poole said Roldec had planned for the copmponent shortages from the third quarter: "We have felt the shortage of Pentium Pros...
[November 28, 1996, 16:47]
Dell Hit By Intel Shortage
News Meredith said the shortages also forced Dell to ship more expensive components in place of those it could not get, for example, replacing unavailable 450MHz Pentium III chips with more expensive 500MHz Pentium III chips.
[January 27, 2000, 8:33]
LCDs Boom While Price Hikes Loom
News Increasing costs of components and rising consumer demand will likely lead to sporadic shortages, fewer discounts and higher prices on select products. We show shortages throughout 2002, particularly in the 15-inch segment.
[January 15, 2002, 8:36]
The Day Ahead: Solectron Tempers Rosy Outlook ... For Now
News For other components, Solectron was still hampered by shortages. Component shortages: A mixed bag of results. Component shortages -- an ongoing problem -- have hampered previous quarters. DRAM pricing: In its previous conference call, Solectron...
[September 12, 2000, 11:50]
Creating Career Pathways
White Papers At the Academy in Peckham students are getting the chance to explore alternative career pathways that will lead to employment in recognised areas of skills shortages. The automotive lab is equipped with the AutoLAB teaching system, which provides a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tight Quarters For PC Makers
News Outright shortages, unheard of during the past two years, have also been showing up, with Intel, for instance, unable to meet requests for some of its processors. If they can get the right components at the right prices, they can in turn offer...
[September 2, 2003, 15:05]
Intel Revenues Down 77 Percent
News He also downplayed reports of shortages of certain components, such as the 845. Although earnings per share fell 17 percent from the second quarter, shipments of processors, flash memory, chipsets, motherboards, Ethernet products, networking...
[October 17, 2001, 9:02]
Compaq Trumpets PC Resurgence
News Winkler reports that iPAQ sales have been strong, despite shortages of processors, motherboards and other components, such as capacitors. The Texas-based PC maker announced second quarter earnings last week that were in line with Wall Street...
[August 1, 2000, 14:23]
Motorola Has Some Explaining To Do With 4Q
News While component shortages are expected to continue in the first quarter of 2000 and to a lesser degree in the second quarter of 2000, the availability of components continues to improve sequentially," the company said.
[January 18, 2000, 12:06]
The Day Ahead: Dell Tries Wall St. Balancing Act
News On a conference call with analysts, CFO Tom Meredith attributed 3 cents ($300m or £156m in sales) of the shortfall to chip shortages and the other 3 cents ($500m in sales) to a Y2K spending slowdown. If Dell is serious about regaining its past...
[January 27, 2000, 11:47]
Motorola Squeaks By Consensus
News While component shortages are expected to continue in the first quarter of 2000 and to a lesser degree in the second quarter of 2000, the availability of components continues to improve sequentially," the company said.
[January 18, 2000, 9:13]
2010: The Year Of The Techie
News Many nations may be facing employment crisis by 2010, with the most acute shortages being in IT workers. We have already seen Airbus buying up five or six years' worth of titanium, and computer manufactures may encounter similar shortages," said Lee.
[May 17, 2006, 13:20]
Flat-panel Prices Sink On Low Demand
News PC manufacturers, analysts and even panel makers expected to see shortages and retail price increases on flat panels in 2002 because of the imbalance between supply and demand. While the shift in pricing will be welcome news for consumers, it could...
[August 9, 2002, 7:55]
Where Are Handspring's Add-in Products?
News A Handspring executive said the problem isn't with its technology, but rather that companies springing up around the Visor are experiencing growing pains coupled with component shortages. Our desire to build this company right, and the unexpected...
[May 11, 2000, 8:27]
Apple Crushes 1Q Estimates
News Apple was hindered by supply shortages in its last quarter. Those shortages of G4 processors weren't as evident in the first quarter. Higher-than-expected prices for components, especially DRAM chips Apple Computer destroyed analysts' estimates in...
[January 20, 2000, 8:35]
Microsoft Denies Flaw In Xbox Motherboard
News The company originally promised one million units at launch, but component shortages forced it to reduce that figure to 500,000. Microsoft executives have vowed the company will avoid the shortages and frustrated would-be customers that accompanied...
[August 15, 2001, 10:28]
Christmas Cheer Around The Corner For PC Buyers
News The oversupply was likely in Pentium 4 processors while the shortages were in Celeron chipsets and probably mobile," added independent PC-industry analyst Roger Kay. Partly because Intel chipset shortages that the company reported this summer...
[October 21, 2005, 15:35]
Ouch! Dell Warns Of 4Q Shortfall
News On a conference call with analysts, CFO Tom Meredith attributed 3 cents ($300m in sales) of the shortfall to chip shortages and the other 3 cents ($500m in sales) to a Y2K spending slowdown. Citing an "inconsistent" flow of key semiconductor...
[January 27, 2000, 10:58]
