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To: Gary Ng who wrote (40627)	11/18/1997 9:26:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Gary, so true. Check out this article...PC sales grow in three continents... PC sales grow in three continents By Reuters November 18, 1997, 6:10 p.m. PT Personal computer sales in two regions of the world are showing healthy growth, reports by two research firms show. For the third quarter of 1997, PC sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMA) grew by 15 percent over the same period a year ago, according to International Data Corporation. And a report by Dataquest said PC sales in Latin America increased by 12 percent. In the EMA region, shortages of the most popular laptops and lower prices for desktops caused notebook sales to grow at only half the rate of desktop models, IDC said. That runs counter to recent trends. Meanwhile, Intel-based servers running the Windows NT operating system grew by 36 percent. Sales growth topped 15 percent compared to year-ago figures in the important markets of Britain and France. Germany, which accounts for one-fourth of the European market, showed smaller gains. Eastern Europe logged an impressive 19 percent uptick, despite stagnancy in the Czech Republic. In this region, about one-tenth of Europe overall, notebooks gains outweighed desktop growth. In the Middle East and Africa, Saudi Arabia and Turkey showed the fastest growth over the previous year, and altogether the segment was up 24 percent over Q3 1996. But Israel and South Africa, the biggest markets, looked more the European countries, and the notebook segment was flat, partly due to poor sales in South Africa. Latin America's growth was fueled largely by sales in Mexico, which shipped 52,000 more units during Q3 1997 than it did the previous year. Overall sales in Latin America topped 850,000 units. Brazil led Latin America with shipments surpassing 300,000 units, although the country experienced a moderate decline of 4.1 percent over the same period in 1996. Venezuela, which grew by a 51.7 percent clip, turned in the best gains. Columbia grew 45.3 percent, Mexico by 36.7 percent, and Chile 25.8 percent. With 11.4 percent of the Latin America market, Compaq retained its No. 1 rank in that region, but by less than one percentage point. IBM claimed 10.5 percent, while Acer captured 9.4 percent. Compaq, the world's biggest PC manufacturer, also managed to hold onto its top ranking in the EMA market, although Hewlett-Packard and Siemens Nixdorf both increased their sales by 55 percent. ______________________________________________________ Regards, Michael

To: Gary Ng who wrote (40627)	11/18/1997 10:43:00 PM
From: Buy Low Sell Hi	Respond to of 186894

Gary, IMO it should be Intel's top priority now to increase the sales of PII at all costs. Let the socket 7 competition hang around and you are asking for trouble. AMD will not have yield problems forever. MediaGX is not a fad and not a toy as many would have you believe. Has anyone considered what will happen to Intel if PII fails to achieve the expected market share? Right now all the eggs are in one basket. BLSH techweb.com The company saw its MediaGX shipments double to 432,000 units last quarter while sales of its 6X86MX processors rose to 316,000 units. The company also sold inventories of its 6X86 processor to rack up 577,000 total units, according to International Data Corp. (IDC; Framingham, Mass.) Combined with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s shipment of 1 million K6 processors and IBM's 6X86MX shipments last quarter, Intel Corp. saw its share of the microprocessor market slide 4.2 percent. Even so, Intel still owns almost 84 percent of the market, according to IDC.