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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (143950)	9/23/2001 1:24:57 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Can you silence those alarms for me? China bucking global PC gloom, but not immune - IDC (2001/07/24)(Agencies) China continues as a lone global bright spot for the world's stagnant personal computer market, with unit shipments surging 28 percent in the three months ended June 30, compared with the same quarter a year ago, according to preliminary International Data Corp figures. Globally, PC shipments declined for the first time in the second quarter, dipping two percent from the year-earlier quarter to 29.8 million, according to the Massachusetts-based research firm. On a sequential basis, mainland China PC sales rose by three to five percent during the quarter, according to preliminary IDC figures. Actual China shipment numbers will be released later in the week, IDC said. China's PC market, which will not be immune from the global sluggishness in PC sales resulting from the worldwide economic slowdown, nonetheless continues to benefit from still-vigorous information technology spending, said Kitty Fok, associate director at IDC in Hong Kong. www1.chinadaily.com.cn Legend says China PC sales to stay strong 5-10 yrs Reuters, 07.27.01, 6:52 AM ET BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) - Legend Group, China's biggest computer maker, believes demand for personal computers will stay strong in China despite slack growth in the global market, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. It predicts China's PC market will grow by 25-30 percent for the next five to 10 years, said a spokeswoman for Legend Group, parent of Hong Kong-listed Legend Holdings Ltd <0992.HK>. The firm expected the market in China would grow 30 percent in 2001, indicating that PC sales in China sing to a different tune than the global market, where sales are falling, she said. Industry surveys show that during the second quarter of this year, global PC sales fell for the first time since 1986 on a year-on-year basis. Legend shipped 626,700 PCs in the second quarter, an increase of 1.9 percent from the first quarter of this year and 44.5 percent year on year, according to preliminary figures released by Massachusetts-based International Data Corp (IDC) on Thursday. forbes.com I can't locate the story about the migration of those sockets to VIA, but china has always been a very low cost market, and VIA is undercutting everybody. I'll post additional info when I come across the stories. VIA, Joshua, and Samuel result in far to many links - I wish they'd use a searchable name like Pentium or Athlon, half the links on the web seem to have the term "via" in them!