Computer Industry Almanac: 1.3B Cumulative PC Sales Over Next 5 Years; Dell & HP Will Each Sell Over 200M PCs In Next 5 Years.ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill. -- In the first 30 years of the PC industry, from 1975 to 2004, cumulative PC sales surpassed 1.4B units. In the next five years, 2006 through 2010, cumulative PC sales will reach 1.3B units or nearly as much as the first 30 years. Cumulative PC sales reached nearly 130M units in 1990, over 1.6B in 2005 and are forecasted to top 2.9B in 2010. The leading PC companies have changed considerably in the last 20 years as seen in the next table. Until the early 1990s Apple or IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) was the worldwide leader in PC unit sales unit sales Sales measured in terms of physical units rather than dollars. Unit sales data are often used by financial analysts when evaluating the health of a company. . Since 1994 Compaq (Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX, www.compaq.com) Compaq was the leading PC manufacturer when it was acquired by HP in 2002. Founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, one year later the company shipped 53,000 PC-compatible COMPAQ Portables, resulting in $111 , Dell or HP have been the leader in PC unit sales.
PCs Sales by Leading Companies
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Worldwide: 1991-95 1996-2000 2001-05 2006-10
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Dell (#M) 5.4 42.1 133 246
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HP & Compaq (#M) 21.3 95.0 130 205
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IBM & Lenovo (#M) 18.0 43.5 64.8 107
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Acer (#M) 1.7 9.5 28.8 79
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NEC & PB (#M) 9.3 25.7 26.5 38
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Apple (#M) 16.2 17.6 17.2 33
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Toshiba (#M) 4.6 15.9 24.2 41
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Gateway (#M) 3.8 18.0 16.5 32
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Total PC Sales (#M) 201 492 810 1,300
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Dell's 5-year PC unit sales have grown from 5M+ during 1991-95 to 42M from 1996 to 2000 and to 133M PCs during 2001-05. Further growth to 246M units is forecasted for the next 5-year period. HP is a strong second and could do better if its current PC growth continues. Lenovo (Lenovo, Purchase, NY, www.lenovo.com) Asia's largest PC manufacturer, founded in China in 1984 by Liu Chuanzhi from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the late 1980s, the company, first known as Legend, introduced a circuit board that generated Chinese characters on Western-made PCs and with its IBM acquisition will remain #3 in the next five years. These are some of the results from a new market research reports by Computer Industry Almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. . The Worldwide PC report has yearly sales for desktop and mobile PCs for the USA and six regions of the world from 1990 to 2011. The report also has sales estimates and projections for eight leading PC manufacturers. Computer Industry Almanac publishes market research reports for the PC, Smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). , and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the industries. For more information see http://www.c-i-a (Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability) A widely used but inadequate formulation of the INFOSEC mission of the U.S. military. Also known as the "Classic Triad," the three concepts fail to include important problems intuitively seen as breaches of security, such as .com
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