Abstract
Affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, US consumer spending has been
sluggish in 2008, leading to a slowdown in the US manufacturing industry and
declines in leading US economic indicators. Despite these developments, as the
corporate spending on hardware is expected to remain at the same level as
compared to the previous year, Taiwanese server full system and barebone
shipment volume is expected to exceed three million units and reach 3.2
million units in 2008, representing a growth rate of 6.5%. Even though
Taiwanese makers landed more orders for non-x86 servers, including IBM Power6,
Sun Ultra SPARC, and FSC SPARC 64, one- and two-way x86 servers still remained
their main contract production products.
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