Tablets to be the toast of Taipei show
By Annie Huang |
May 31, 2011, Tuesday
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COMPUTER manufacturers of all sizes and descriptions have been pushing to get a piece of the tablet market created by the launch of Apple's iPad in April 2010.
The obsession with tablet computing will be on full display today as Computex, the world's second-largest computer show, begins its annual five-day run in Taipei.
Computex will feature more than 50 tablet models, said organizer the Taipei Computer Association, with big names including Lenovo Group Ltd and Toshiba Corp having their products displayed.
Researchers have predicted slower growth in PC sales this year because of the rising consumer interest in tablets. Gartner Research recently cut its sales growth forecast for global PC sales in 2011 from 15.9 percent to 10.5 percent.
Many analysts say it may take two or three years before mobile device software from Google Inc and Microsoft Corp can catch up with iPads, which have thousands of applications to choose from.
Research company IDC says Apple Inc had a 73 percent share of the tablet market in the last quarter of 2010. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co was a distant second with 17 percent. It said 2010 tablet sales totaled 18 million units.
Besides tablets, Computex will also feature corporate and home servers and other cloud-based computing equipment and services, a sector Taiwanese firms have recently entered to make up for shortfalls in PC sales.
At least 10 of the tablet models to be shown at Computex are powered by Intel Corp's new Atom chip, the United States technology giant's first microprocessor designed for tablets. Intel has moved into the fast growing market now dominated by chips using designs by UK-based ARM Holdings.
The new Atom "delivers improved video playback, fast Internet browsing and longer battery life," Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel's Asia-Pacific region, said.
Tablets, which are more popular in mature markets, will not replace PCs, he said, noting the strong PC demand in Asia and emerging markets.
The obsession with tablet computing will be on full display today as Computex, the world's second-largest computer show, begins its annual five-day run in Taipei.
Computex will feature more than 50 tablet models, said organizer the Taipei Computer Association, with big names including Lenovo Group Ltd and Toshiba Corp having their products displayed.
Researchers have predicted slower growth in PC sales this year because of the rising consumer interest in tablets. Gartner Research recently cut its sales growth forecast for global PC sales in 2011 from 15.9 percent to 10.5 percent.
Many analysts say it may take two or three years before mobile device software from Google Inc and Microsoft Corp can catch up with iPads, which have thousands of applications to choose from.
Research company IDC says Apple Inc had a 73 percent share of the tablet market in the last quarter of 2010. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co was a distant second with 17 percent. It said 2010 tablet sales totaled 18 million units.
Besides tablets, Computex will also feature corporate and home servers and other cloud-based computing equipment and services, a sector Taiwanese firms have recently entered to make up for shortfalls in PC sales.
At least 10 of the tablet models to be shown at Computex are powered by Intel Corp's new Atom chip, the United States technology giant's first microprocessor designed for tablets. Intel has moved into the fast growing market now dominated by chips using designs by UK-based ARM Holdings.
The new Atom "delivers improved video playback, fast Internet browsing and longer battery life," Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel's Asia-Pacific region, said.
Tablets, which are more popular in mature markets, will not replace PCs, he said, noting the strong PC demand in Asia and emerging markets.
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