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To: Amy J who wrote (177123)	2/24/2004 12:02:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

Your claim goes counter to the data out there, including BoA's conclusion, I don't know the BofA report. Every piece of market research I have ever seen says local vendors esp. Via are gaining share on intel in asia. Just googling Intel asia market share pulls up literally hundreds of articles like this: Outside Intel: PCMarket powered by cheap chips The rate of growth of the non-Intel microprocessor-based PC is already twice that of PC sales growth in the country, says MAIT's (Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology) executive director Vinnie Mehta. The market share of chipmakers other than Intel has increased to 18 percent in the first half of the fiscal (April-September 2003) from 10 percent in the corresponding period last year, according to the MAIT survey conducted by a marker research firm IMRB. Via claims to have shipped 160,000 units in the calendar 2002 and for the last calendar it touched 200,000 units mark. "The market has grown in the last 12 months and we expect to ship 350,000 units in 2004. We are positioning ourselves as an affordable PC for the masses," Via Technologies India country head Ravi Pradhan said. zdnetindia.com