According to the latest news, CEO of AMD ,Luorui De (RoryRead) ,argued the company’s main competitor ,Intel’s point of view on Tuesday, saying the short supply of hard disks has little effect on the PC market.About 40% of the global hard disks are manufactured in Thailand, and the heavy rain which continued for several months has led to disruption of its manufacturing operations. Intel cut its forecast for its fourth quarter on Monday by about 10 billion U.S. dollars, said the inventory shortage caused heavy losses to the PC manufacturers.Luorui De said that although there are pressure on the PC market, but he did not believe “in the current quarter, there are significant pressure.” Luorui De said that in the early stages of the current quarter, the supply of hard disk is in good condition, and thus to enable the market to maintain a “very good performance.” He said: “In the first quarter and second quarter of next year, you may see some kind of ‘clinical’, but I do not believe that supply chain will have problems.” Luorui De added that even if the PC industry’s overall production has decline, AMD still has a big opportunity to grab market share. Intel has not yet reached for comment. In Thailand, most of the industrial areas which have been flooded are now dry, but water levels in some areas are still high,it is warned, it may take several months to allow all affected factories by the floods re-start, the company is still on assessment of losses from this natural disaster . Many technology companies have operations in Thailand, including Western Digital hard drive manufacturers and component suppliers, HutchinsonTechnology, these companies have suspended operations part of the business activities in Thailand.
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