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To: Tobias Ekman who wrote (60969)	7/22/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 186894

Retail desktop sales up in June biz.yahoo.com "The good news of accelerating unit growth was tempered by the continuing decline in selling prices. Average prices for Windows-based PC's hit a new low in June of $1,123 -- down 20 percent from 1997. June marks the second straight month of decreases, after prices had been on the increase through the first four months of the year. ...... In June, Compaq regained the lead it lost in May, marking the tenth month of the past twelve that Compaq lead in the retail market. Hewlett-Packard was the only PC maker among the top four performers in June to show a decline in units from the prior month, slipping from the leading position to third. IBM finished in second place, the firm's best market share showing this year. IBM's sales were propelled by sales of PCs based on AMD processors, which accounted for almost 60 percent of IBM's total unit volume. Packard Bell-NEC slipped to fourth place as they continue to lose ground, with June marking its fifth consecutive month of year-over-year sales declines. AMD maintained a strong performance with its products accounting for 26.2 percent of retail sales in June. In the sub-$1000 segment, PCs with a K-6 processor represented almost 45 percent of the market, significantly ahead of the Intel PentiumMMX. AMD K-6 processors also powered four of the top six best-selling skus in June. However, the best-selling sku for June, the Hewlett-Packard 8250, was based on Intel's new Celeron processor. PCs based on Pentium II processors remained the most expensive products with the average Pentium II PC selling for $1,520. This is over 40 percent higher than the next two processor families, the Celeron and the AMD K6-2, both of which powered PCs selling for an average of $1,079.