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To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (34551)	8/18/2000 1:20:34 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

semibiznews.com Workstation shipments drop due to memory shortages, says IDC By J. Robert Lineback Semiconductor Business News (08/18/00, 09:05:47 AM EDT) FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Shortages of memory chips--in particular Rambus DRAMs -- caused workstation shipments to decline by 4% to 409,123 units in the second quarter from 424,874 in the first quarter of 2000, said a new report from International Data Corp. here. The market research firm predicted a return to "good" unit growth in the second half of 2000, barring severe memory shortages. IDC said vendors currently have substantial backlogs of orders for workstations based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system. Unit shipments of NT-based systems dropped 7% in the second quarter, while Unix-based workstations were up 3%, according to IDC. "The second quarter was difficult for most personal workstation vendors, who struggled with RDRAM shortages while trying to meet customer demand," said analyst Kara Yorkley in IDC's workstation research group. "Despite the supply constraints, the percentage of systems shipping with RDRAM increased from 38% in the first quarter to 75% in the second quarter."