Matthew Wilkins

Dell's Number Two In The PC Market Again, Thanks To The iPad

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 10, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT

In nudging past Acer to reclaim second-place in the global PC market, Dell got some unlikely help from Apple’s iPad.

2009 PC Sales: The PC Stands for Pretty Crappy

John Paczkowski in News on July 15, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

The global PC market will suffer a rare decline this year with shipments expected to slip four percent to 287.3 million units in 2009, from 299.2 million in 2008. Not since the dot-com bust of 2001 have PC sales been so slow or their outlook so grim, says iSuppli, the research outfit charting the market’s collapse.

New From AMD: The Impresseron

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2009 at 7:49 am PT

Intel’s year of sequential gains in the semiconductor market came to an abrupt end in the first quarter of 2009. According to market research outfit iSuppli, the chip giant’s share of the market fell 2.5 percent to 79.1 percent in Q1. Meanwhile, AMD’s rose about 2.3 percent to 12.8 percent.