Acer`s aggressive approach
Acer CEO JT Wang wants Acer to take a big chunk of the global PC market - big enough to move the Taiwanese electronics firm from fourth position to third, reports Australian IT.
He says growth rates for Acer of between 30% and 90 % are possible in various international markets and profits can be kept healthy on skinny margins.
"We plan on selling about 10 million desktops and 15 million notebooks by the end of next year. The available market at that time is very likely to be about 250 million and if we sell 25 million units that`s about 10%," says Wang.
Lenovo in bed with AMD
Lenovo has decided to expand its limited relationship with chip maker AMD into a worldwide alliance.
Computing reports Lenovo, which took over IBM`s PC and notebook lines last year, has been working with AMD in China over the past two years.
A new deal will see Lenovo offer AMD-based commercial PCs on a global scale. The decision comes as Lenovo announced its first own-branded line of desktops and notebooks for the SME market. "With AMD processors, we`re able to meet demand among commercial users who are looking for simplified, affordable computing," the company said.
Intel credited for Commonwealth success
The decision to go with industry standards across the network has been crucial to the success of the technology behind the Commonwealth Games, said Dell enterprise marketing manager Simon Johnston.
By industry standards, Johnston means Intel`s x86 industry standard servers, as opposed to using larger symmetrical multiprocessing systems, reports Computer World.
Included among the many venues using Dell technology is the Commonwealth Games Village, where athletes from 71 nations will communicate via an Internet centre to family, friends and fans across the globe.
Samsung introduces 32GB solid-state storage
Samsung Electronics is offering a 32GB NAND flash-based, solid-state disk (SSD) for mobile computing applications.
Information Week reports the company is aggressively developing NAND-based solid-state storage devices as a potential replacement for traditional storage, especially in MP3 players like Apple Computer`s iPod.
The solid-state storage drive is said to weigh only half as much as a comparably-sized, 1.8-inch hard drive, but it reads data three times faster and writes data 1.5 times faster, according to the company.
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