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Chassis makers reducing notebook business
Published: Monday, July 15, 2013 | Posted By: Dennis
It would seem that notebooks are going the way of stuff that is going away.
Seeing notebook demand gradually weakening, chassis makers have turned their focuses to non-notebook product lines, trying to minimize the impact. Catcher Technology has successfully reduce its notebook product line's revenue contribution to below 40% and the percentage is expected to rise slightly in the second half.
Chassis maker Ju Teng is also expected to see the revenue contribution from its tablet business rise significantly from 4-5% in 2012 to 20% in the second half of 2013, dropping its notebook business' proportion to only 80%.
This isn't good. Consider that most large businesses have started issuing laptops to their employees for the following reasons.
- portable
- easy to replace
- smaller
- do everything a desktop does.
Some content producers are still issued workstation machines but overall there is a reduction of desktop PCs across the board in favor of notebooks. Now there is a global demand reduction for notebooks in favor of tablets.
I wonder, where is all of this demand? Could it be that people buy more than one tablet device and never upgrade their laptop/notebook? Ya thats it, thanks Intel and Microsoft you are doing the world an awesome job.
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