Dell continues to invests in China

March 25th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143753-c,companynews/article.html

Dell will make significant investments in China to beef up the company’s regional presence, CEO Michael Dell said Friday.

Calling China one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Dell said his company would purchase US$70 billion of hardware components from Chinese companies between last year and next year. In 2006, Dell purchased about $18 billion in technology components and related products from suppliers in China.

Dell officials have stressed the importance of emerging markets like China and India for sustained growth. Dell last year signed up Chinese consumer electronics retailer Gome to sell its PCs. For the fourth quarter of 2008, the company reported a 36 percent rise in combined sales in the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, compared to a 17 percent increase in sales in the U.S.

Check out this article talking about Dell making significant investments in China. I wonder if this covers the range of Dell products, from the desktop for the home user, to industrial strength server/blade solutions - will there be a focus on open source products? Virtualization/Grid? We’ll have to see, sounds exciting particularly as I keep reading about the new possibilities there whether we’re talking about the number of mobile phones - all of which need content, billing as well as the infrastructure to make and receive calls.

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