The Economic Roundup is an excerpted translation of the Chinese-language ROC Economic Yearbook published by the Economic Daily News, a sister publication of the Taiwan Economic News. The yearbook is the most comprehensive and authoritative source for understanding the fundamentals of Taiwan's economy, both in the macro and micro aspects. The excerpted translation gives foreign readers a concise view of the island's overall economic picture. It is divided into four parts: general economy, primary industries, secondary industries, and tertiary industries.
Secondary Industries > Personal Computers
Despite flat economic performance and the shadow of high oil prices, the global market for personal computers (PCs) still managed to enjoy an annual growth of 14.5% to reach 188 million units in 2005, due mainly to continued increase in demand for desktop PCs in the emerging markets and for notebook PCs in mature markets. Most major international PC brands continued their low-price strategy to cash in on the replacement of desktop PCs with notebook models in mature markets, causing the global sales of notebook PCs to shoot up 28.8% from a year earlier to near 60 million units in 2005. Taiwan's share of the global PC market kept growing in 2005, hitting over 30% in the desktop PC market and 84% in the notebook PC market.
