Solid Quarter for PC Market, Gets Boost from Anticipated Tariffs
Worldwide and U.S. PC shipments showed solid growth in the first quarter of 2024 , driven in part in the U.S. by a surge in shipments in anticipation of U.S. tariffs…
Worldwide and U.S. PC shipments showed solid growth in the first quarter of 2024 , driven in part in the U.S. by a surge in shipments in anticipation of U.S. tariffs…
Japan-based companies’ share prices appear to weather market tumble better, and many may benefit from new free trade agreements with China and South Korea.
U.S. tariffs and associated inflationary pressure and global recessionary risks will negatively impact demand for PCs in 2025.
New innovations include a fully functional automobile created with the help of HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers.
For companies that say they’ve balanced the locations of their manufacturing sites to minimize tariffs, these new tariffs make it impossible to do so, particularly since most Southeast Asian countries were hit with the new tariffs.
Ninestar’s G&G business introduced a number of third-party and remanufactured printer supplies in March…
Artificial Intelligence / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 1, 2025
“Every new dollar spent on AI solutions and services by adopters is expected to generate an additional $4.9 in the global economy…
Artificial Intelligence / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 1, 2025
Eighty percent of 80 percent of GenAI spending forecast to go towards hardware, AI-enhanced PCs.
One of the document-imaging industry’s eternal questions is will the A4 market ever overtake the A3 copier/market, and if so......
HP will likely respond with renewed focus on its growing printer supply subscriptions to counter use of third-party supplies.
Canon / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Ninestar
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 25, 2025
Market-research firm IDC is forecasting that China’s office printer and copier/MFP market will have declined by 12.5 percent year-over-year last year, and will continue to face significant challenges this year.
One commonality among many of these uses is that AI can quickly examine large amounts of data. For instance, that could mean quickly finding out how much your company spent on office supplies last year…
At the HP Amplify conference being held this week, HP Inc. introduced its latest large-format printer, the HP Latex R530......
On March 18th at its Amplify Conference, HP Inc. announced new benefits and enhancements for its Amplify partner program. They......
New ASIC computer chips protect against the possibility of quantum computers breaking encryption, opening up attacks on printers and networks.
Many companies in the document-imaging industry will raise prices to absorb the costs of tariffs, while others have diversified their supply chain so that they won’t be subject to the tariffs.
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