Bolstered by demand from Indian educational institutions, US-based NComputing said it expects its revenues from India to increase from seven percent now, to 35 percent by the end of 2009.
“In the coming year, we are going to deploy more than one million virtual desktops and a large chunk of these will be deployed in India,” Stephen Dukker, chairman and chief executive of NComputing, said in a phone interview.
A provider of desktop virtualisation software and hardware, NComputing has witnessed rapid growth in India, with companies such as NIIT, Maruti Udyog, HCL, Educomp Solutions and the Azim Premji Foundation, buying its virtual desktops.
The NComputing offering encompasses virtualisation software that enables a single PC to be shared by several users, bringing the cost of acquiring a PC to as low as $70 (35), according to the company.
(Full article ‘Indian schools boost demand for virtual PCs’)
Global sales of semiconductors rose by five percent in October from a year earlier, fuelled by stronger-than-expected demand for personal computers, with Christmas sales appearing so far to be solid, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Monday.
At $23.1bn (11.2bn), October sales were about two percent higher than the $22.6bn reported in September. “Strong unit demand for PCs has driven a 15 percent increase in unit sales of microprocessors for the first 10 months of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006,” the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in its monthly report.
So far this year, sales are in keeping with the SIA’s forecast for 3.8 percent growth in worldwide sales for 2007, the SIA said.
The report said that consumers are taking advantage of lower prices in the industry, with revenues up only four percent over January-to-October 2006 sales.
(Full article ‘Chips sales up on strong PC demand’)
Global microchip sales rose 5.9 percent in September, driven by demand for consumer products such as personal computers and mobile phones, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Monday.
Microchip sales in September were $22.6bn (10.96bn), compared with $21.3bn last year.
(Full article ‘September sees rise in global microchip sales’)
HP widened its market-share lead over Dell in worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter, while Dell returned to growth after several quarters of declines, researcher IDC reported on Wednesday.
Total PC shipments grew 15.5 percent worldwide in the third quarter, IDC said. Separately, researcher Gartner reported a 14.4 percent rise in worldwide PC shipments in the third period and said US shipments grew 4.7 percent, below its earlier forecast of 6.7 percent growth.
HP shipped 19.6 percent of all PCs in the period, a 33 percent leap from the year-earlier period, IDC said in its quarterly PC market-share survey.
(Full article ‘HP widens market-share lead over Dell’)
Nintendo zipped passed telecommunications giant NTT and a major financial group to become Japan’s fifth-biggest company by market value on Thursday, propelled higher by a stellar earnings performance on demand for its Wii and DS game gear.
By mid-afternoon Nintendo’s stock had climbed 8.1 percent to 614,000 yen ($5,095), adding to a 3.5 percent gain made on Wednesday after its earnings announcement.
Nintendo lifted its annual outlook above market expectations after quarterly operating profit more than tripled, as its strategy to expand the gaming population to women and the elderly paid off handsomely.
Offering innovative and easy-to-play games, the company’s DS handheld player and Wii console have outsold rival machines, such as Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, in recent months.
Its market value now stands at $72 billion, outstripping Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone), and Honda Motor, which had placed higher in the rankings only a day before.
(Full article ‘Nintendo jumps in market value on earnings fever’)