Computer Sales in Asia Pacific Seen Reaching New Highs, BT Says
By Cheok Soh Hui
Singapore, March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of personal computers
in the Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, will likely reach new highs
in the next three years, growing by 23 percent annually to 32
million units by 2003, the Singapore Business Times reported,
citing Dane Anderson, vice president for computing systems at
market researcher IDC. Sales are expected to grow a slower 17
percent a year to top $36.5 billion in the same period because of
falling personal computer prices. Last year, International
Business Machines Corp., or IBM, led computer sales in Asia
Pacific with an 8.4 percent market share, followed by Compaq
Computer Corp. with 7.3 percent, Legend Holdings Ltd. with 7.1
percent, Samsung Electronics Co. with 5.7 percent and Hewlett
Packard Co. with 5.4 percent, the paper reported.
Shipments of personal-computers in Asia reached a record
last year, with a total of 14.1 million PCs shipped in the region,
excluding Japan.
(Business Times, 3/6, Pg. 1) |
