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To: Ibexx who wrote (59052)	6/28/1998 11:11:00 PM
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Thread, Intel news: Intel to Dominate Vietnam's PC Market by 2000 June 26, 1998 (HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam) -- Intel Corp. will dominate the Vietnamese market in the coming years, with annual turnover expected to be US$1 billion by the year 2000. John Davies, Intel's newly-appointed vice president and general manager of Intel in the Asia Pacific, made the announcement to the local press on his first visit to Vietnam since taking office in February. Davies told BizTech that Intel sees a PC market of 800,000 PCs by the year 2000 -- three PCs per 100 people. Intel is marketing its latest technology, the Celeron microprocessor , in Vietnam. It started by showcasing it at the INTEL'98 exhibition . During his stay in Ho Chi Minh City to keynote the show, Davies reassured local resellers that Intel will continue its technical support to Vietnam's information industry. "There is a lot of help to be given here in Vietnam to create a real market," Davies said. "We have organized a series of training courses and seminars for users and distributors." With these activities, Intel wants to bring understanding to local people about how to use new technologies for business, Davies said. Davies also said that Intel sees in Vietnam a government and a media community that have a strong commitment to developing IT technology . "We will implement our promises to help them to make Vietnam's IT 20 00 master plan come true," Davies said. Analysts said that for the time being there are no competitors yet with Intel chips in the local market. The recent lawsuit alleging an Intel monopoly is a matter for the United States, not the Asia Pacific or Vietnam, Davies said. Asked for incentives to cope with the currency crisis in the region and in Vietnam, Davies said Intel's products must be better, cheaper and more efficient to users in Vietnam. "We have to help both users and suppliers get more understanding that using PCs and related applications will help their work and make their business cost-effective," Davies said. Davies said his trip to Vietnam this time is to outline his vision of the Internet as a major growth engine of Vietnam. "We want to let local users know about the road to E-business, starting from an entry point of buying a Pentium II processor-based PC and moving on to the access point of connecting with an intranet or the Internet, establishing a Web site and then conducting business transactions such as back-office integration and order fulfillment," Davies said. Davies said Intel has set up software labs in Shanghai (China) and Bangalore (India), but will not do so in Vietnam in the coming years. Davies said the geographic diversity of Intel's business helped it weather economic problems in various parts of the world. "The currency crisis in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, is one of our challenges," he added. "Despite the challenge, we are more excited than ever about the future of computing and our role in it." Davies said that last year, there were more than 120,000 PCs shipped in Vietnam, according to the International Data Corp. That now makes the number of PCs in Vietnam 240,000 units. (David Tran, Asia BizTech Correspondent) Ibexx