| | By Mike Magee @ Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:32 PM
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| | An analyst has announced that, suddenly, the PC market is becoming exciting again and if that's true it's good for the semiconductor market because chips in PCs account for 27% of the entire sector.
Chris Ryan, senior analyst at Future Horizons, said there's been an over 40% price drop in PCs since 2000, while notebook prices have dropped by over 50%.
The average cost breakdown of semis contributing to the cost of a PC are the processor at 48%, memory at 24%, chipsets at 10%, graphics at 9% and 'other' components at nine percent.
Once Intel gets into discrete graphics products with its forthcoming 'Larrabee' technology, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Chipzilla kind of owns the whole PC.
The market research firm thinks that the PC market will grow by over 10%, with strong sales in Eastern Europe and in Asia.
You now want to know what's exciting. Ryan said that solid state drives are a developing thing, but ultra mobile PCs will become affordable. This particular space, however, he said, looks like it will have several non-traditional invaders, including Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' using ARM tech, as well as Intel's Atom. X | |