“Apple Inc. is on track to extend its lead as the biggest electronic chip buyer after overtaking Hewlett-Packard Co. last year on surging demand for its iPhone and iPad tablet and waning personal computer sales growth,” Hugo Miller reports for Bloomberg.
“Apple has bought $17.5 billion worth of chips for its devices in 2010, compared with $9.7 billion the previous year, El Segundo, California-based IHS ISuppli said in a report today,” Miller reports. “Apple’s semiconductor spending is expected to exceed Hewlett- Packard’s outlay by $7.5 billion this year, up from $2.4 billion in 2010.”
“Apple said this week it has sold more than 25 million iPads since the device went on sale in April, 2010 demonstrating the demand for a device that can offer many of the features of a laptop in a smaller and lighter format,” Miller reports. “Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, California, on May 17 said consumer PC sales dropped 23 percent last quarter, and cut its annual sales forecast by $1 billion.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]