Hyderabad:
There will be more than one billion personal computers
in use worldwide by the end of 2008 according to a new
report `Worldwide PC adoption forecast 2007 to 2015'' from
Forrester Research.
The
report added that while it took 27 years for first billion
PCs, the next billion is likely to come within next five
years.
The
emerging Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) market
will account for more than 775 million new PCs by 2015.
F
orrester
predicts that there will be more than two billion PCs
in use by 2015, representing more than 12 per cent compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2003 and 2015.
The
report stated that vendors are used to the predictability
of buyers in mature markets, but high volume launches
into emerging markets are risky and vendors won''t have
the luxury of introducing products on a small scale to
test the market before going into full production because
the economics will force suppliers to focus on bringing
volume to market more quickly at much greater risk.
The
Forrester report notes that there is need for the PC industry
to scale production enough to ship five times the number
of systems at one-fifth the cost and arm these emerging
markets with the low-cost product required for the PC
market to take off.
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