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The Asia-Pacific IT & High Technology Sectors : A Company and Industry Analysis (May 2006)
Mergent, May 2006
This report looks at the information technology and high technology industries across the Asia-Pacific, with a focus on Australia, China and Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Current Environment - Key Points
- Strong global demand for information and communications technologies (ICT) accounted for much of the economic expansion in Asia-Pacific's IT and high-technology sectors in 2005 and the first quarter of 2006
- Sales of semiconductors were up in 2005 as a result of strong demand for hardware and semiconductors, with many manufacturers in the region increasing their global market share
- PC unit sales were boosted by lower prices for PC notebooks and entry-level PC desktops but narrow profit margins tempered revenue growth
Notebook PC adoption levels among small medium enterprises (SMEs) rose as a result of Asia's increasingly mobile and technologically dependent workforce
- The business sector's growing reliance on IT and the internet and the increasing threat of viruses and hackers helped push up sales of security solutions
- As the outsourcing industry matured, providers targeted markets in developing countries as well as their own markets
Industry Profile - Key Points
- The Asia-Pacific industry is in a strong position on the global ICT supply chain to profit from current and future ICT market trends due to its strategic geographical location between manufacturers in Asia and markets in the west
It is also set to benefit from the region's growing capital investment and domestic consumption levels
- Many countries in the region are closing the ICT gap between themselves and more developed countries
Progress is currently mostly driven by government funding and initiatives to improve investment in infrastructure, capital equipment, R&D and human capital
ICT business-friendly policies have also helped cultivate robust domestic industries
- Private equity investment through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is likely to pick up pace, mirroring similar trends in the US as large players turn to Asia to seek deals
- Oil prices, interest rates, currency exchange rates, the US economy and China will be among key issues which will be closely watched by the industry in 2006, with exports and domestic consumption the areas most likely to be affected by any changes
Market Trends and Outlook - Key Points
- Advances in chip performance, storage capacity and battery life are leading to a wider selection of models, services and cost packages in the mobile and smart IT hardware market for the region's increasingly mobile and IT-reliant workforce
- Rising capital investment and inflow into nanotechnology R&D and greater efforts in the private and public sector to commercialize nanotech suggests that a nanotech boom may be ready for greater mainstream adoption
- Strong GDP growth in 2006 is likely to fuel greater expansion in the region's financial services, banking and retail sectors which, in turn, are likely to boost ICT investment
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