PC demand remains healthy.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Fourth-quarter sales of PC units topped even the most positive expectations, rising 17% worldwide year-over-year. In January, Chris Whitmore, an analyst with Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank Equity Research (www.db.com), said recent remarks by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. and Seagate suggest that demand is strong for PCs in general, and notebooks in particular. Furthermore, motherboard and notebook manufacturing are inline with normal seasonality, he said. The firm estimated notebook growth topped 35%, while desktops grew about 10%. DB also raised its 2006 forecast for PC unit growth to 12%, which is above the industry consensus. The firm said unit growth and revenue growth will accelerate in 2007. For the quarter Dell's units sold rose more than 20% and its market share rose half a point to 17.2%. At HP, 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. rose nearly 16%. Acer's unit sales rose 53% on a 1.3 point gain in share. Earlier expectations of a "significant deceleration deceleration /de·cel·er·a·tion/ (de-sel?er-a´shun) decrease in rate or speed. early deceleration " in the first half due to delayed purchases in advance of the new Microsoft Vista operating system may prove to be conservative, Whitmore said. |
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