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Acer Pulls Back on PC Builds
Acer may have passed Dell in netbook shipments in Q1, but supply chain checks indicate the PC maker is pulling back on manufacturing orders with ODMs. That could spell troubling news for netbooks in Q2. Already an IDC report earlier this week indicated that the computer processors behind netbooks — Intel Atom — saw shipments…
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Tapping into the Economic Stimulus Funds
Cashing in on the Economic Stimulus Package IT solution providers can cash in on the federal economic stimulus package—if they are ready for it. You need to know where the funds are headed, establish customer relationships and maybe even write proposals for grants. Stimulus Package Could Be Shot in the Arm for Solution Providers Don’t…
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IBM CEO (Almost) Says Why IBM Targeted Sun Microsystems Acquisition
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has upped its software and services game to become 80 percent of its business, a big increase from the 50-something percent that software and services used to contribute. But as IBM recounted its strategic moves towards emphasizing software and services putting less of a focus on hardware sales during its IBM Analysts Day…
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Intel Atom Processor Shipments for Netbooks Drop
Netbooks may have propped up PC sales during the worst of the recession, but the Intel Atom processors behind popular mininotebooks saw their shipments decline by 33 percent in Q1 compared with Q4, proving they are not recession-proof. The drop in netbook shipments indicates that mininotebook OEMs held significant inventory of Intel Atom processors coming…
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AMD Market Share Leaps Forward, Intel Maintains Dominance
New data from research group IDC shows Advanced Micro Devices gained on arch rival Intel in the first quarter PC microprocessor market. There is of course still a huge gap between the two — Intel earned a 77.3 percent unit global market share, a loss of 4.7 percent, while AMD held 22.3 percent, a gain…
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Intel Says PC Sales Slump Hits Bottom
If chips and processor sales are an indicator of the downstream health of the IT marketplace, Intel chief Paul Otellini is signaling that PC and server sales may have stabilized. He told analysts that Intel sales are “a little better than we expected.” Intel stock value jumped 3 percent in after hours trading following Otellini’s…