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Context: Coronavirus Drives W. European PC Sales

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Context: Coronavirus Drives W. European PC Sales

According to Context, PC sales through the largest W. European distributors are up by 38% Yo-Y on the first 3 weeks of March, as the spread of the coronavirus (aka Covid-19) drives demand for remote-working hardware.

The demand for home-office equipment has lead to 51% Y-o-Y sales growth of notebooks, and a 9% rise in desktops. The increase is greater for business-targeted products, since commercial notebook sales are up by 56% Y-o-Y compared to 44% for consumer-targeted products. The difference is more stark in desktops, with a 16% Y-o-Y increase in just the business-targeted segment.

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IDC Revises European Market Forecast

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IDC Revises European Market Forecast

The coronavirus outbreak across European countries leads IDC to revise previous ICT spending forecasts-- the analyst predicts the market will see "significant" slowdown in 2020, especially when compared to the previous December 2019 forecast.

"European Technology vendors and buyers are rapidly adapting to the disruption and the extremely fast-moving market conditions," the analyst remarks. "In such a fluid scenario, it is still early to fully assess the overall European ICT impact picture. IDC recommends that all technology leaders recalibrate their strategies. In use cases such as patient care as well as customer, citizen, student or employee experience and proximity, we expect to see accelerated adoption of digital solutions."

IDC has two scenarios for Europe-- a probable one where the coronavirus is "broadly" contained in the next few weeks and a pessimistic one featuring a less controlled "domino" effect on a global scale. The probable scenario projects European ICT spending to grow by 1.4% in 2020, down from the December 20199 forecast of 2.8%, making it the first strong deceleration in spending growth since the European debt crisis of 2013-2014.

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A CONTEXT Retrospective at DISTREE 2020

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A CONTEXT Retrospective at DISTREE 2020

The DISTREE 2020 keynote by CONTEXT global managing director Adam Simon gives retrospective on the channel in 2019-- the year of Windows 10, as the OS gives a huge boost to the PC market and related industries.

The channel sees 3.3% growth in 2019, "very solid" results with desktop PCs growing by an impressive 10.7%. The mobile computing category is up by 4.7%, while "other" categories follow at 2.7%. Many new categories, such as smart home and wearables, are also growing at a high rate, while telecoms are facing a slowdown. This is due to one main reason, which is the drop of Huawei smartphone sales through the channel. The printing category remains on the decline, as are some enterprise categories including storage.

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How to Avoid IoTageddon

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How to Avoid IoTageddon

At ISE 2020 in Amsterdam, the most popular talk on Wednesday's ISE Main Stage focused on IoT, or more correctly… IoTageddon.

What's IoTageddon? 

Editor-in-Chief at Channel Media Europe, Bob Snyder linked five important facts to illustrate the dangers ahead with IoT.

First, IoT began life some years ago as a "dumb" machine-to-machine technology and now is being touted as the "Intelligence of Things.” Snyder drew a comparison between drones without cameras and IoT without sensors.

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Cypress Intros 6th Gen USB-C Controllers

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Cypress Intros 6th Gen USB-C Controllers

Cypress announces a pair of USB-C controllers for next-generation desktops and laptops-- the EZ-PD CCG6DF and EZ-PD CCG6SF, single-chip solutions featuring USB 3.2, DisplayPort and Power Delivery support.

The two controllers also support the upcoming USB4 standard, as well as the latest Intel Thunderbolt platforms. Both integrate multiple features from previous generation Cypress controller designs, such as a VBUS provider load switch for power with fault protection. An embedded 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0 processor allows firmware upgrades for USB4 support through 64KB of flash memory.

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