5,000 Customers Adopted the Nimble Storage
Just four and a half years after shipping its first Adaptive Flash platform, Nimble Storage the flash storage solutions company, today announced that more than 5,000 customers worldwide have adopted the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform. Achieving this milestone underscores the company’s vision to deliver the industry’s most efficient flash storage platform.
Worldwide tablet shipments fall down by 12% in Q4 2014
Notebook shipments remain flat as the total PC market declines 6%
In a new report from Canalys it is reported that worldwide tablet shipments fell 12% year on year to 67 million units in Q4 2014, according to the latest country-level research. The desktop market fell back into a decline in the fourth quarter as Windows XP upgrades waned. The notebook market held firm with another quarter of just 1% growth.
Total PC shipments (desktops, notebooks and tablets) fell 6% in Q4 to reach 148 million units, resulting in full-year 2014 shipments of 528 million units, up 3% on 2013. Apple regained the top spot in the PC market possibly due to holiday sales, with just under 27 million units shipped. Lenovo’s shipments grew 6% year on year to almost 20 million units as it increased its market share to 13.3%. Samsung dropped out of the top three to make way for HP, with growth of 17% driving shipments over 17 million units, its best quarter since Q3 2011.
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PC-market slump hits AMD in 2012
AMD who is the second-largest maker of personal-computer processors, after Intel has reduced chip orders from its supplier Globalfoundries Inc, apparently in an effort to cut costs.
According to Bloomberg, AMD estimates it will purchase wafers from Globalfoundries for about $115 million in the fourth quarter, the new agreement replaces a previous agreement which said AMD would buy $500 million of chips.
Samsung Exiting European Laptop Market
Samsung this week threw in the towel and said it will exit the European laptop market, the latest sign that second-tier PC manufacturers are struggling. Samsung said the decision applied to its Ativ and Chromebook notebooks.
Whilst this week Toshiba has renewed its channel commitment, Toshiba have announced a new push for business to business through the channel.
The first step is to amalgamate the channel into a single European market thus simplifying the operation.
More Smart-phones Were Shipped in Q1 2013 Than Feature Phones
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (2013 Q1) as smart-phones out-shipped feature phones for the first time. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in 2013 Q1 compared to 402.4 million units in the first quarter of 2012 and 483.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012.
In the worldwide smart-phone market, vendors shipped 216.2 million units in 2013 Q1, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smart-phones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in 2012 Q1, but 5.1% lower than the 227.8 million units shipped in 2012 Q4.
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