Notebook sales are set to drop by 10 percent globally this year, according to Taipei-based market research group Digitimes Research.
In a report, Digitimes said that worldwide notebook shipments this year are expected to be about 156.26 million units, down 9.7 percent from a year earlier.
The research group said the global notebook market underwent inventory adjustments in the first half, and seasonal demand in the second half could still fail to lift demand.
Photo: Reuters
Purchases are set to fall despite the launches of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system and Intel’s Skylake central processing unit, which are expected later this year, Digitimes said.
Its forecast excluded hybrid devices which function as both notebooks and tablets.
The researcher said that since the global economy has shown signs of slowing down and a strong US dollar has compromised demand in emerging economies, the global notebook computer market is expected to remain slow in the second half.
The IMF has cut the world’s economic growth outlook for this year to 3.3 percent from an earlier estimate of 3.5 percent, while expectations the US Federal Reserve is set to raise rates this year has strengthened the value of the greenback.
In the first quarter, global notebook computer shipments fell 4.8 percent from a year earlier to 37.59 million units, and in the second quarter sales dropped 9.4 percent year-on-year to 38.32 million units, according to Digitimes.
In the third quarter, notebook shipments are expected to fall 12 percent annually to 39.29 million units while sales are expected to fall 12 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter to 41.07 million units, Digitimes said.
Digitimes said that Apple Inc would outperform other international brands in the second half.
In terms of contract manufacturers, Taiwan-based Wistron Corp (緯創) is expected to benefit from increased orders from Hewlett-Packard Co, Acer Corp (宏碁) and Asustek Computer Inc (華碩) in the second half, Digitimes said.
Pegatron Corp (和碩) is expected to see orders from Asustek and Toshiba Corp increasing, the researcher said.
Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador. He credits Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s decision to bank on bitcoin three years ago with changing his life. “Before I was unemployed... And now I have my own business,” said the 39-year-old businessman, who uses an app to charge for rides in bitcoin and now runs his own car rental company. Three years ago the leader of the Central American nation took a huge gamble when he put bitcoin
Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips should spur growth for the semiconductor industry over the next few years, the CEO of a major supplier to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) said, dismissing concerns that investors had misjudged the pace and extent of spending on AI. While the global chip market has grown about 8 percent annually over the past 20 years, AI semiconductors should grow at a much higher rate going forward, Scientech Corp (辛耘) chief executive officer Hsu Ming-chi (許明琪) told Bloomberg Television. “This booming of the AI industry has just begun,” Hsu said. “For the most prominent
PARTNERSHIPS: TSMC said it has been working with multiple memorychip makers for more than two years to provide a full spectrum of solutions to address AI demand Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday said it has been collaborating with multiple memorychip makers in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications for more than two years, refuting South Korean media report's about an unprecedented partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. As Samsung is competing with TSMC for a bigger foundry business, any cooperation between the two technology heavyweights would catch the eyes of investors and experts in the semiconductor industry. “We have been working with memory partners, including Micron, Samsung Memory and SK Hynix, on HBM solutions for more than two years, aiming to advance 3D integrated circuit
NATURAL PARTNERS: Taiwan and Japan have complementary dominant supply chain positions, are geographically and culturally close, and have similar work ethics Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and other related companies would add ￥11.2 trillion (US$78.31 billion) to Japan’s chipmaking hot spot Kumamoto Prefecture over the next decade, a local bank’s analysis said. Kyushu Financial Group, a lender based in Kumamoto’s capital, almost doubled its projection for the economic impact that the chip sector would bring to the region compared to its estimate a year earlier, a presentation on Thursday said. The bank said that 171 firms had made new investments since November 2021, up from 90 in an earlier analysis. TSMC’s Kumamoto location was once a sleepy farming area, but has undergone
RSS