MIC: Tablet PC industry in Taiwan this year, shipments will grow 24.5%

Information Institute for Information Industry estimates that in 2013 the global PC (PC) shipments of about 306 million units, down 4.1 percent compared with last year, is expected in 2014, is expected to surge in the commercial replacement driven by the global PC market will turn slightly positive growth trend, but this slight slow growth trend will continue until 2017, the market scale of development show a slow stagnation phenomenon igogo
For Information Industry Consultant Zhoushi Xiong said that in 2013 the PC market by the Android Tablet PC 2013 global economic recovery is slow, Tablet PC (Tablet) products continues to expand growth, the consumer market has declined significantly in Europe and America and other factors, will show negative growth trend, the overall rate of decline than the Desktop (DT) is more obvious. Looking ahead, it is expected in the new platform and new product specifications gradually into the market after the end-consumer market will stimulate demand, driven by the second half of the size of shipments.
2013 Tablet PC shipments worldwide, accounting for the overall mobile computing products account for more than 50%, shipments of approximately 228 million units, the growth rate was 62.2%; expected 7-inch cheap Tablet products, driven by the Emerging markets will greatly enhance the Tablet PC product acceptance, and promote the Tablet PC product shipments continued substantial growth; however, in 2015 the growth of tablet PC products will begin to show the strength of slowing, the annual growth rate of 15.2% to 2017 the annual growth rate will fall to 9.6%. For Information Industry Consultant Zhoushi Xiong said that the tablet computer products at a low price trend, driven by short-term market demand can indeed stimulate rapid increase, but long-term strategy of low-priced products, the effect of stimulating the market will gradually decrease.
The MIC said the first half of 2013 Taiwanese notebook computer industry by sluggish consumer market in Europe and America and the new platform conversion factors, overall shipments as expected, while the second half of the shipment was expected in the new technologies, new Specifications and other markets, driven by favorable factors, shipments will continue to increase, estimated 2013 Taiwan notebook shipments will reach 154 million units of the scale, 9.9 per cent decline compared to last year.
Outlook 2013 Taiwan Tablet shipments scale industry, with a number of brand manufacturers best igogo android 4.2 tablet pc coming in the second half of Windows 8 / RT new products, forecast full-year shipments will reach 120 million units of scale, representing a growth of 24.5%. The MIC said that cheap Tablet models to create the first two quarters of sales success, each brand manufacturers in low-cost models of the planning is becoming more positive, estimated 7 to 9 inches of the small size of low-priced products, will Apple launch new models in the fourth quarter before the notice, began to actively grab market share, become a focal point in the second half of the main driving force shipment.
Observed in 2013 in Taiwan server shipments, estimated annual shipments will reach 50,000 units of the scale, representing growth of 6.2%, mainly orders will come from large data centers, while in the brand actively launch a new server hardware products, but also equipped with many software and application services, will escape the past simply play the role of hardware vendors, so bring Taiwanese server industry's overall performance. Looking ahead, the server shipments of demand will come from the telecommunications, financial services, government agencies and large-scale manufacturing, low-end smart handheld devices in a significant increase in the trend, the demand for the back-end server will continue increases.