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Laptop Sales Outshine Desktop PC in Taiwan
Taiwan notebook computers are posing a challenge to desktop computers in the PC market, with the former's sales growth for this year expected to hit 25.4 percent while the latter's is only 2.6 percent, according to reports from Taipei Tuesday.
An information industry council was quoted as saying that the annual growth rate for laptop sales was 39.5 percent higher in 2000 than in the previous year, with increased earnings of 150 million US dollars.
The council predicted earnings from laptop sales will hit 653 million US dollars this year, with 385,000 units sold. Earnings from desktop computer sales are only expected to hit 1.15 billion US dollars for this year, or a slight increase over last year's figure of 1.12 billion US dollars.
Meanwhile, the rapidly growing e-commerce industry triggered a boom in sales of computer servers in the island's high-tech market last year. Sales growth for computer servers is expected to hit 19.4 percent for 2001, with earnings hitting 643 million US dollars.
In accordance with the increasing number of e-commerce and e-business applications in the new century, the dot-com industry has also surged, with earnings expected to hit 512 million US dollars for 2001, representing a tripled growth rate over last year's level, according to the council.
Sales of PDAs, a type of palm-size computer, are also expected to increase in 2001, the council added.
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