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IDC predicts more chip market consolidation this year
Tarot readers working at IDC are predicting that there will be more industry consolidation in the chip market after worldwide semiconductor revenues increased more than 3.7 percent. -
China PC market to boom on back of Ultrabooks, Windows 8 release
The importance of the PC marketin China has been growing substantially, not just in terms of production but increasingly with demand for products too. -
Analysts think Intel Ultrabooks will sell like hot cakes
Beancounters are convinced that Intel's cunning plan of flooding the market with lots of Ultrabooks will pay off. -
Lenovo headed towards being top PC vendor
Chinese hardware maker Lenovo has increased its lead over Dell as the world's second-largest PC maker and is heading towards knocking HP off the top of the league tables. -
IDC predicts video conferencing boom
AnalysisThe airline tax may have a positive effect on video conferencing but there are also other factors involved in pushing this technology to the forefront, IDC has said. -
Public sector budget for cloud still low
Budget allocation for cloud is still not a priority for the Western European public sector, research has found. -
Via loses ground
Chipmaker Via is losing more ground to AMD and Intel, according to bean counters at IDC. -
Western Digital completes Hitachi buy out
The thinning out of the HD herd has finished today with Western Digital announcing it has snapped up Hitachi Global Storage Technology to the tune of $3.9bn and 25 million shares of Western Digital Corporation stock, worth another $0.9 billion. -
Microsoft cloud job claim is total PR drivel
It has been suggested that Microsoft and IDC may well and truly have their heads in the clouds -
Microsoft says the cloud will generate millions of jobs
Microsoft claims that there will be millions of jobs created from the building of cloud based computing. -
Server revenues drop in mixed bag for global market
The server market saw a drop in factory revenues, with all but Dell seeing significant drops year on year. The market had a mixed bag in IDC’s latest results, with factory revenues dropping off while shipments and server revenues increased. -
Tablets and smartphones: Why PC vendors should panic
AnalysisThe PC industry has very little going for it right now, with slow PC sales, rising component prices, government and businesses slashing IT spending leaving the end user to pick up the slack – right in the middle of a recession. -
Intel has record year
FinancialIntel confounded some nervous concerns about geographic and technology trends with record revenue and earnings. For 2011, Intel's revenue of $54 billion was up 24 percent against 2010 and net income was up 13 percent to $12.9 billion. -
Microsoft has a prophecy of 2012 profit loss
Software megalith Microsoft has been consulting the augers and is warning that the liver on its sacrificial lamb is not up to scratch. -
Intel says turn up the heat
For ages, data centre designers have been working out ways to keep chips cool and this mostly involves spending a fortune on air con. -
Open source not enough to save WebOS
Open sourcing WebOS is not enough to save it, a leading analyst has warned. -
IDC poo-poos Windows 8
IDC has poo-pooed Windows 8 saying that it has concentrated too much on tablets rather than its traditional PC base. -
Cloud means happy days ahead for all sorts of vendors
A forecast from IDC predicted that spending by public cloud service providers on storage, but also on hardware, software and services will grow at a rate of 23.6 percent from 2010 to 2015.
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