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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 223.95+1.7%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (19234)5/9/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
New driver for IC/PC growth? It has been suggested by some that mere upgrades to Win98 would not be enough to spur sales of PC's, but that a new technology would be needed to drive PC growth in the coming years. This article affirms what many have been saying.

pubs.cmpnet.com

Excerpt:
Shipments of DVD video players are expected to reach 500,000 units in the United States, with demand for DVD-ROM drives rising to 1.4 million units, driven by sales in the second half of the year of faster PCs incorporating the new drives along with MPEG-2 decoding software.


4-5 years down the road, maybe super fast bandwidth will be the driver. One thing is certain: the people who perenially proclaim the death of the PC market look like fools when new technologies emerge to take the spotlight.

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