Analysts cut the worldwide PC shipments forecast for 2009

iSuppli Corp, An Analyst Firm, on Thursday cut its forecast of the worldwide PC shipments for 2009. The shipments are predicted will rise by 4.3% in 2009, down from its previous forecast of 11.9% growth. The expectation for 2010 shipments is also slashed to 7.1% from the initial prediction of 9.4%.

The reasons of its forecast cut are:

• The landscape of the global economy has changed dramatically, and in many ways irrevocably
• The result of the financial turmoil is less money to spend. It has impacted to application markets, like PCs.
• For 2009, consumers and businesses will be more focused on paying mortgages or their staff’s wages than investing in new hardware. The one anomaly in that theory, though, is the slew of new netbooks hitting the market.

iSuppli noted that While desktop shipments are expected to drop by 5% but laptop shipments will grow by 15%. Much of that growth is being attributed to the increasing interest in low power and low priced netbook.

Netbook is a version of mini laptop that is designed for basic applications, such as web-surfing, e-mailing and word processing. Netbook is designed to consume less power than traditional PC and laptop. The price is relatively inexpensive.

iSuppli also cut its projection of semiconductor sales for 2008, on Wednesday. The sales will decline by 2% to $266.6 billion this year from about $272 billion in last year. The negative momentum will continue into the fourth quarter of this year along with predicted overall markets drop of 10.9%.

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Sources :

Computer World: Analysts slash 2009 PC forecast by two-thirds, November 21, 2008

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