Japan PC 2007-2011 Forecast: Portable PC Screen Size, HDD, and PC TV Tuner Trends

This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J7080106) analyzes Japan's PC market in 1Q07 from the perspectives of portable PC screen sizes, HDD, and TV tuners in order to illuminate the current product trends and to provide market forecasts. The annual data in this study for the years up to 2006 are actual values while the data for 2007 and beyond are forecast values. As for quarterly data, the data for the period up to 1Q07 (January?March) are actual values while the data for 2Q07 (April?June) and beyond are forecast values. All data are updated as of June 2007.

"SSD (Solid State Drive), which is a large-capacity NAND flash memory, entered the market in 2006 as the next-generation auxiliary storage device. Attention is paid to installing SDD in portable PC with low power consumption and no mechanism. Although the current cost per gigabyte of SSD is expensive compared to HDD, the deployment rate is likely to increase sharply once the price comes down to the level of 2.5-inch HDD. PC vendors will have to consider development of SSD-based portable PCs while reviewing low power consumption and excessive shock resistance," observes Hirotoshi Asano, Senior Market Analyst, PCs, IDC Japan.