Huang Weide, a personal Systems group manager at IBM Taiwan Branch, said at a press conference yesterday that the outlook for Taiwan's laptop market in the first half of 05 was not rosy. "Without new, attractive technology to spur market demand, the first quarter and even the previous six months of market growth near zero." ”
Huang Weide said that since the IT month exhibition last December, there have been signs of a decline in demand for laptops, and sales have been lower than expected. Huang Weide added that IBM is very concerned about the market's prospects, but at least until March will be able to see the trend of market development. At the same time, he expects sales in Taiwan this year to grow by about 600,000 units.
It is not only IBM that is aware of the sluggish performance of the market. Because of the lack of strong market demand, BenQ also said the market outlook is not clear.
Liu Zhijian, senior marketing manager of BenQ Electric, said yesterday that the company expects laptop demand in Taiwan to grow 600,000 this year, compared with 540,000 to 550,000 last year. At the same time, Liu Zhijian confirmed that he will be the ibm-Lenovo Taiwan Branch of the president of the post.
According to the established timetable, ibm-Lenovo will be set up in the second quarter of this year if the US government is to associate itself with IBM's PC group merger case.
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