The economic downturn is taking a toll of all the businesses. No business entity is immune to this bad impact of the gloomy economic conditions.
The impact is so widespread that segments extending from banking to IT and telecom, all are affected and more or less are ruined. The PC industry, chip industry and semiconductor industry are the worst hit industry segments. PC growth rate has declined and every vendor related to this segment is facing the fury.
Conditions are infancy and analysts do not expect to turn the table before 2010. PC industry is facing the tough times. However, industry is surviving on portable machines called Laptops. Laptops industry is still going upwards and netbooks are coming as the most hot category of the time.
In the laptop segment, Acer is coming as winner. The company is expecting that sales of portable PCs to grow 30 to 40 per cent in the last half of 2009.
Acer expects that sales of notebooks and netbooks will increase by 30 to 40 per cent in the second half of this year. The company has forecasted to ship 10 to 12 million netbooks this year, down from its earlier forecast of 12 to 15 million.
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