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PC Market Edges Towards Recovery
News Despite the Sars epidemic, the war in Iraq, and economic uncertainty, the PC market grew faster than expected in the second quarter. HP has been much more aggressive on PC prices since the merger, but analysts said the company still has trouble...
[July 17, 2003, 8:34]
PC Market Ripe For A Rebound
News The precipitous decline in memory prices appears to have skidded to a halt, leading some analysts to believe that some of the worst effects of the slowdown in the PC market may be over. Although Ross and other analysts are extremely wary about the...
[March 16, 2001, 10:24]
PC Market Stops Declining, For Now
News The PC market is far from healthy, but for the moment, at least, it has stopped shrinking. PC shipments worldwide grew by 3.8 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period a year ago, according to IDC, the first increase after five...
[October 18, 2002, 13:51]
IDC: PC Market On The Comeback Trail
News After two tough years, the PC market will experience tangible growth again in 2003 and 2004 due in part to the rise of wireless, according to market research firm IDC. We continue to expect slow worldwide PC shipment growth for the next several...
[December 6, 2002, 10:18]
PC Market Grows Without Dell
News The PC maker saw shipments rise worldwide by 10.2 percent from the first quarter of 2005, resulting in a decline in market share from 16.9 percent to 16.5 percent. It's a significant change because Dell has grown faster — and generally by a...
[April 20, 2006, 10:15]
PC Market Growth Sluggish Despite End Of War
News The PC market will grow only slightly for the second quarter of this year, amidst continued economic uncertainty and the absence of an economic upswing that some had predicted following the end of the war in Iraq, research firm Gartner has predicted.
[May 14, 2003, 16:43]
PC Market Hurting, But Dell Grabs Share
News The PC market is shrinking, while Dell Computer continues to gain market share. Confirming grim reports from individual PC makers, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Wednesday that unit shipments worldwide tumbled nearly 12 percent in the...
[October 18, 2001, 9:40]
Intel's Barrett: PC Market On The Mend
News Although the market for communications equipment continues to shrink, the PC market has begun to stabilise, said Intel chief executive Craig Barrett during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
[February 26, 2002, 9:01]
PC Market Growth At Historic Low
News The world PC market grew far more slowly than expected in the fourth quarter of last year, hit by saturation in the US and Europe and the slowdown of the US economy, according to a new report. Besides the plunge in dot-com stocks, Gartner analysts...
[January 19, 2001, 15:04]
PC Market Holding Out For Recovery
News Taiwan's PC manufacturers are experiencing a seasonal dip in shipments and are hoping for a recovery in the second half of the year. During a conference call summarising February's unit shipments from a number of Taiwanese motherboard and notebook...
[March 13, 2002, 10:11]
Tablet Gives Hope To Gloomy PC Market
News Tablet PCs -- tiny portable computers fitted with pens, touch screens and handwriting-recognition technology -- came onto the market last November and are based on Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
[March 17, 2003, 9:36]
Dell Falters In Growing PC Market
News Despite the slump, Dell remains the top PC vendor in the UK, with 24.5 percent of the market. Despite increasing demand for PCs in the market as a whole, Dell's UK sales have dropped, according to the latest statistics.
[August 6, 2007, 15:12]
AMD Predicts PC Market Stability And Revenue Growth
News Ruiz remained relatively optimistic about the state of the PC market, saying there is increasingly reason to believe growth will return to normal in the fourth quarter of 2001. In the mean time, he said AMD sees itself gaining market share in PC...
[June 7, 2001, 16:19]
Gartner: HP And IBM Could Abandon PC Market
News Gartner said on Monday that if profit margins and profitability drop too low, HP and IBM could be forced to cut their losses and leave the PC market. Gartner predicted that PC vendors are facing a gloomy future, and that three of the top ten...
[November 29, 2004, 12:05]
IBM Reorients The PC Market
Leader It is easy to see this in cataclysmic terms: the inventor of the modern PC handing over the market to the Far East, the death of the PC, even the end of Western dominance in high technology. The PC market has been an exercise in brand and supply...
[December 6, 2004, 12:20]
Falling Euro Slams PC Market Growth
News The euro's continued slide meant a sluggish PC market on the continent in the last quarter, while the UK's corporate PC market showed relatively strong growth, according to new research. Hewlett-Packard showed significant growth, fuelled by an...
[November 1, 2000, 13:33]
UK PC Market Finds Its Legs At Last
News The UK PC market, including servers, laptops and desktops, showed double-digit growth for the fourth quarter of last year, driven by rising demand from consumers, businesses and the public sector, according to research from IDC published on Tuesday.
[February 4, 2004, 12:00]
European PC Market Hits Four-year Low
News The European PC market experienced its slowest fourth quarter in four years, according to provisional figures released this week, giving weight to fears that the market is becoming saturated. The fourth quarter is traditionally the PC market's...
[January 22, 2001, 11:25]
Nvidia Splits PC Market With New Chips
News Nvidia hopes to divide and conquer the PC market, grabbing a bigger chunk of the mainstream segment, with the release on Wednesday of a new PC graphics chip in two desktop flavours. Nvidia's new GeForce4 chip comes in separate versions for the high...
[February 6, 2002, 12:16]
UK Sales Rise In Flagging European PC Market
News The number of computers sold at retail stores rose 9 percent in the United Kingdom and 2 percent in France, according to a report released by Context, a London-based firm that tracks the PC market in Europe.
[February 13, 2002, 11:52]
