Word: compaq
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...INITIAL STRATEGY WAS TO STAY ABOVE THE fray. As American firms like Compaq , and IBM brought low-cost personal computers to its shores, NEC, Japan's foremost personal computer manufacturer, controlling about 50% of the domestic market, loftily insisted that quality should take precedence over cost. But the price pressure got to the company. NEC has announced a new low-priced line, including one model for $1,740, about half the price of an earlier comparable machine...
Intel is also accused of playing favorites. According to one competitor, the company allegedly allocates supplies of its latest, most sought-after chips first to its biggest customers, such as PC makers IBM and Compaq, and then to smaller clients. In doing so, critics charge, Intel can determine which PC maker survives or perishes. Competitors have also raised concerns about Intel's own entry into the PC market. They complain that the company favors customers that resell Intel-made machines with its newest and best chips. Says Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices: "It's clear...
...time when other computer companies, including Sun Microsystems and Compaq, have been reporting hefty profit increases and rolling out innovative products, IBM last week was announcing its most traumatic cutbacks to date. In the fifth major restructuring in the past seven years, it plans to shed more unprofitable and ill-fitting assets and slash its work force next year more than 8%, or an additional 25,000 employees. Only a year ago, IBM reorganized its operations into 13 semiautonomous units, called "Baby Blues." The latest round of cuts will include the first layoffs in the company's history and will...
...contrast, Apple Computer -- which has surpassed IBM as the leading PC maker for the first time ever -- is having a spectacular year, largely on the success of its laptop PowerBook. Apple and Compaq are reaping the benefits of huge demand sparked by aggressive price cutting. Workstation manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, are also enjoying strong demand for their machines. IBM is still catching up in workstations. Although it developed superb technology years ago, the company sat on it out of fear that it would cannibalize IBM's bread-and-butter mainframe business...
...products as well as a new marketing strategy. In October the company launched a line of computers called PS/ValuePoint, with prices starting at $1,300 for the entry-level model. The PS/VP, which is compatible with IBM's original PC line, is the company's answer to Dell and Compaq, which both sell machines by mail order as well as through retail channels. The strategy is starting to pay off. IBM expects to ship 1.5 million PCs this quarter, 50% more units than it has ever shipped in any quarter in its history. The shipments include the company's five...