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To: shane forbes who wrote (3081)	4/27/1998 4:58:00 AM
From: shane forbes	Respond to of 9256

Good news for the PC people continues (aka there is hope for us all): ---- Major Japan PC makers say to boost 98/99 shipments TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Major Japanese personal computer makers said on Monday they would boost domestic personal computer shipments in the year to March 1999 by roughly 10 percent from the previous year. The companies said the higher demand would be fueled by the launch of Windows 98 this summer and the launch of new PCs using the latest Intel Corp Pentium microprocessors. They expect effects of the government's stimulus package to boost the economy to also help increase PC demand. Fujitsu Ltd will increase its domestic shipments to about 2.25 million units in 1998/99 from two million a year earlier, a Fujitsu spokesman said. NEC expects its shipments in the first half of 1998/99 to remain flat from a year earlier, but to be up about 10 percent in the second half, a NEC spokesman said. Its 1997/98 shipments totalled 2.95 million units. Toshiba Corp expects its PC shipments in 1998/99 to be 10 percent higher than the 600,000 units it shipped in 1997/98, a Toshiba spokesman said. IBM Japan Ltd, the Japanese unit of International Business Machines Corp has not disclosed its 1998/99 domestic shipment plans but was aiming at a 1998/99 growth rate that was higher than the industry average, an IBM Japan spokesman said. ---- Shane.