It manufacturing giants are switching to cloud computing as profits slump

Two big notebook giants in cloud computing

The sale of tablet computers represented by the ipad has had a severe impact on the total size of the 233 billion-dollar PC market, which has also affected global notebook giants quanta and benevolence. Data show that, as the U.S. PC market in 10 years of the first landslide, last year, the company's notebook OEM business revenue appeared the first year-on-year decline since the listing.

The impact of Tablet PCs on the PC market will continue, even more severe. Forrester, the US Market Research Institute ("Forrester"), recently released a report saying Global Tablet PC sales will reach 375 million units in 2016, well above the 2011 56 million, which means that global tablet sales will grow at a compound annual rate of 46%.

It is the grim nature of the situation that quanta and benevolence are quick to start coping strategies and turn to high-margin cloud computing devices, trying to seek contract contracts for servers and tablets from companies such as Google and Amazon.

Jimmy Chen, a securities analyst in Taiwan, said Quanta and benevolence had realised that the growth of notebook sales would slow and that they needed to find new products. For them, the transition to cloud computing devices is a new and risky area, but they need to be transformed.

Intel injected into cloud computing vendors

In addition to two major notebooks, Intel, the PC chip giant, has announced that it will inject capital into Beijing's Straight Tech Co., a "straight technology", at tens of millions of dollars. It is reported that direct technology is a provider of telecommunications and IT operations management software products and solutions, and expand to the domestic public cloud and private cloud infrastructure, namely service management software and services market.

Intel has made it clear that investing in straight-forward technology is primarily about the fundamental change in the future of cloud computing, as Intel invests in building software and service ecosystems as the industry shifts.

In addition to cloud computing, Intel Investments this year will focus on investment opportunities in areas such as network consumption, e-commerce, software services, data centers, and mobile devices to find diversified development strategies.

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