Global - Infrastructure - Equipment - Fixed - Products

Synopsis

Archived report. This report was archived in October 2005 and has not been updated. The years 2001 and 2002 were very slow for most types of equipment, both for consumer Internet access and for infrastructure. 2003 saw a minor recovery overall, with indications that 2004 would start the recovery. Sales of PCs are forecast to increase slowly, whereas sales of their laptop counterparts and wireless Internet access devices will grow at around twice that rate. Handheld, such as tablet PC, device sales are still declining. Suppliers expect a recovery in fibre optic cable and semiconductor sales from 2004 onwards, but this is more due to a perceived need rather than increasing orders.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Related reports
• 3. Internet access
• 4. Personal computers
  • 4.1 Statistics from 2005
  • 4.2 Statistics from 2004
    • 4.2.1 Portable computers
  • 4.3 Statistics from 2003
• 5. Fibre optic industry
  • 5.1 Research in 2004
  • 5.2 KMI research in 2003
• 6. Semiconductors
  • 6.1 US - Chinese protection problems in 2004
  • 6.2 Statistics from 2005
  • 6.3 Statistics from 2004
    • 6.3.1 SIA
    • Table 1 – Worldwide PC shipments by vendor – 2004, 2005
    • Table 2 – Worldwide PC shipments – 2002 – 2006
    • Table 3 – PC users by region - 2003
    • Table 4 – Global PC sales by vendor – 2nd quarter 2003 and 2004
    • Table 5 – Worldwide sales of PCs by selected vendors – 1990 - 2008
    • Table 6 – PCs in use and PC sales in US – 1985 - 2007
    • Table 7 – Worldwide PC shipments 2001 - 2002
    • Table 8 – Annual growth in broadband demand – 2001 – 2004
    • Table 9 – Semiconductor shipments – 1980 – June 2004
    • Table 10 – Semiconductor sales – 1980 – June 2004
    • Exhibit 1 – Dense Wave Division Multiplexing