iPad challenge looms large at Asia IT show

TAIPEI: Film match cheaper prices, but the iPad. Thinner, more powerful laptops. At Computex, Asia's largest fair, manufacturers are showing how they plan to face the iconic products from Apple's challenge.

Taiwan's Compal to do is to Dell and Toshiba laptop Major League brand name manufacturers, but it has also joined the panel's fever is only a few months away from launching a 7-inch devices.

"Of course, iPad is the number one challenge," said Yeta Huang, a senior engineer Compal.

"However, we believe our room, the flat is expected to exceed $500,000 a year. Cheap price is one area in our efforts to market size."

Computex, a huge event held in Taipei this week to provide a technical scrambling to find the right way to the iPad sector snapshot, product acceptance gadget enthusiasts around the world.

As Apple's breakthrough product is released in April last year, flooding the brand hit the market with limited success, and manufacturers are also eroded the demand for traditional computer harm.

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, has used computer show will launch its response to the iPad, a thin notebook type, it has been called Ultrabook.

It is "a new class of mobile computers", that "marriage of performance and features with the plate-like features of today's notebook computers," according to the U.S. chip maker, suggesting that the future will not just be all of the tablets.

"There is healthy growth in the PC space, but affordability is the key to the popularity of personal computers," said Sean Maloney, Intel vice president, according to Taipei Times. "Now is the time to reshape the PC platform."

Even so, companies know they can not ignore the tablets, and quickly enter the market.

Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer was established in November 2010 its first flat-panel division, just a few months later, Apple's iPad.

"Our chairman Johnny Shih that the flat panel industry has great potential, which is why he decided to set up a new business unit, said:" Kakuangelo Guo, is the Asus Eee keyboard Division product manager.

"The leading computer brands have their own personal computer shipments down, because they expect the PC market this year as part of the film to be eaten," he said.

Ray Chen, president of Compal, said although his company is still on the notebook market, 90 percent of its revenue comes from confidence, it will spread into the film and other products.

Thus, it hopes to improve end of this year 20% of non-notebook revenue, Chen said, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

Despite all the attention of film reception, with a broad view of industry trends sober analysts see the future continuity.

Good old desktop will not disappear, because for most of the world's population is still the only affordable option, they said.

In addition, in many emerging market infrastructure has not been sufficiently developed to make mobile Internet browsing seamless, trouble-free experience.

"Notebook or desktop computer will often feel less pain, from emerging markets such as Russia, China, India and Brazil, demand remains strong, said:" Guo Ming-chih, Taipei and Hong and securities analysts.

This demand will help offset the PC demand from North America and Western Europe declined after the iPad, and other pieces Lauck, he said.

Some dissenting voices are flat to hose down speculation.

"I bought a flat, after three weeks, I found that it can not replace my phone, it can not replace my PC," Mooly Eden, Intel's general manager of PC client group, told the Asian Wall Street Journal at Computex.