By Sally Watson, 25 May 1999 16:28
NEWS The drop in PC sales has badly affected shipments of network connection cards, according to a survey from IT research house, Cahners In-Stat Group. The report claims that shipments of network interface cards fell to 12.6 million for the first quarter of 1999, almost 13 per cent down on the previous quarter. Revenue also dropped from $1.06bn to $860m. Sales of Fast and Gigabit Ethernet cards also declined. Cahners In-Stat blamed the fall on slower PC sales and an overstocked reseller channel. The survey also pointed to an increasing trend by computer manufacturers to cut costs by building networking features into motherboards, rather than adding them separately.
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