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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94426)	2/20/2000 10:59:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1571423

quote.bloomberg.com Japan's Home-Personal Computer Sales Jump 97% on Year in Week Ended Feb. 6 By Naoko Fujimura Japan's Home-PC Sales Jump 97.4% on Year in Week Ended Feb. 6 Tokyo, Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Personal computer sales at large electronics retail stores in Japan rose in the week ended Feb. 6 from the same period a year earlier, the technology weekly Nikkei Market Access reported. Sales jumped 97.4 percent by volume and 76.5 percent by value, benefiting Japan's largest PC makers NEC Corp., ujitsu Ltd., IBM Japan Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and others, according to figures supplied to Nikkei by private research company Gfk Japan. Sales to individual consumers have risen since the release of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 98 operating software in July, 1998, and of Apple Computer Inc.'s iMac computer the ollowing month. The introduction of desktop PCs with flat-screen monitors, rather than bulky cathode ray tubes, is also fuelling sales. Compared with the previous week, sales during the seven days ended Feb. 6 rose 11.6 percent by volume and 14.3 percent by value. The average price of PCs sold rose to 202,636 yen $1,831) from 197,915 yen the previous week. New PC models, which started to appear in the market the last week of January, boosted the average price of PCs, the Nikkei said. Gfk Japan tracks sales at about 2,000 electrical stores nationwide, operated by about 55 retailers. The figures cover about 25 percent of Japan's over-the-counter PC sales and about 10 percent of the total market. The following table gives Gfk Japan's figures for the percentage changes in PC sales from the previous week and from the same week a year earlier: Japan's PC sales for the week ended Feb. 6 *************************************************************** Model From Prev. Week Y-o-Y ************************************************************* Desktops (by Volume) +9.8% +110.3% (by Value) +12.1% +73.4% Notebooks (by Volume) +13.5% +85.7% (by Value) +16.0% +78.7% All PCs (by Volume) +11.6% +97.4% (by Value) +14.3% +76.5% *************************************************************** Comments from Chevyman1963: and all of the companies mentioned are mainline AMD supporters. Such as Sales jumped 97.4 percent by volume and 76.5 percent by value, benefiting Japan's largest PC makers NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Japan Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and others, according to figures supplied to Nikkei by private research company Gfk Japan. Notice anything important here? All of them are big AMD supporters.