Electronics manufacturers comply with RoHS directive forecast costs and prices will Ma added: "meet the RoHS directive, including manufacturing equipment upgrades, and the need to ensure that the component suppliers to meet RoHS requirements; therefore will increase the costs involved, 64% of surveyed companies expect will meet the requirements of RoHS Directive products prices. "" RoHS directive Readiness Survey: Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea "report shows: - 35% of manufacturers forecast price increases will under 5% - 23% of manufacturers forecast prices will rise between 5 to 10% - 6% of manufacturers forecast to reach more than 10% price increase
Louis Burns pointed out that the rise of multimedia and network in the past, all the computers processor and motherboard to re-structure change, the main axis of a new generation of computers will be locked in "mobile", so Intel architecture in the whole design, including the DPRK is also thin, light weight, energy consumption low-power research and development, the fastest initial product launch in 2003. Available in 2003. Intel Vice President of Sales and Marketing Jason - Chen said: "We want to integrate communications and computing capabilities to provide a new mode of computer use to stimulate the development of the market." Intel said the company selected Asian partners alliance, because more than 60% of the world and 75% of notebook computer motherboards are designed and manufactured in Asia.