Load the initial lack of hard-drive that resulted from widespread flooding in Thailand fell on a small PC maker, which increases the price of computers to stem losses.
Hard-drive prices have skyrocketed since October, and deprivation have forced computer makers to raise prices independent PC up to 20 percent. Analysts expect PC prices continue to rise as the severity of the flooding is assessed, with prices expected to stabilize as the shortage of the end of the first half of next year.
Thailand accounts for up to 45 percent of the production of hard-drive and flooding in the whole world has been disrupting production and supply chain operations key hard-drive maker Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba. With fewer hard drive that rolled out from Thailand and an increase in the price, the company's research has lower worldwide PC shipments of expectations for the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of next year.
The world's largest PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell are lower impact because they maintain in your hard-drive supplies, analysts said. Even in the short, hard-drive manufacturer embattled shipping a large piece of a unit for large PC maker to meet contractual commitments, which in turn hurt the small PC maker to buy from a distributor or an open market.
The spot price rises, and hard drive PC makers little feel major impact as a large PC makers hold a control bigger hard-drive supplies, said Bob O'Donnell, IDC program Vice President in.