The Taipei Computer Association (TCA) announces the result of quarterly
economic prosperity confidence survey that the recent earthquake hit Japan did
affected the exhibitors of COMPUTEX TAIPEI fell back slightly on second quarter.
The COMPUTEX Exhibitors Index (CEI) is rated at 1.64, which is the lowest in the
last three quarters of survey results but still within the Good rating.
Other results of the survey showed that 43 percent of the enterprises felt Good
view and Average Above view on Q2, 32% of them felt Good view, while 25% of the
enterprises deeply bothered and gave Bad rating. The percentage of enterprises
saw Good to Above Average view dropped to 43% on Q2, from 53% on Q1. The
percentage of enterprises gave Bad view and Below Average view increase
dramatically to 25% on Q2 from 16% on Q1. One percent increased on Good view by
the enterprises to 32%.
Fig. 1: 43% of COMPUTEX exhibitors felt Good to Above
Average view on Q2
Source: TCA, 2011.03
Felt slightly lower after Japan's earthquake calamity,
the prosperous confidence of SME still higher
than average
The analyses of the interviewed enterprise were based on their total capitals.
The CEI index from large-scale enterprises, whose total capital is higher than
US$50 millions hit 1.76. The CEI index from enterprises, whose total capital
lies between US$ 10 ~ 50 million is 1.69; CEI Index from enterprises, whose
total capital are under US$10 million reached 1.64. Generally, the medium to
large enterprises felt slightly lower after Japan's earthquake calamity.
Fig. 2: Economic prosperity confidence of medium-to-large
enterprise slightly higher than "Good" views
Source: TCA, 2011.03
Enterprises engage in PC system and photo-electronics
are optimistic on Q2 despite of earthquake disaster
Distinguish by exhibition areas, the exhibitors of PC system and
photo-electronics were optimistic and see Good view on Q2. The main reason is
the Tablet PC and e-Book reader remain the hottest products with manufacturers
of smart handheld devices are preparing to introduce their latest products
scheduled to release on March and April. Manufacturers in the components and
storage felt bad in obviously decline.
Fig. 3: CEI index is higher than the average for exhibitors
of the System and the Photo-electronics areas
Source: TCA, 2011.03
The period survey took place was from March 15~24 with 332 effective samples
out of total 1,224 respondents from the Taiwanese exhibitors.
Majority of the international buyer have similar view
on Q2 as the suppliers
TCA also took survey on the
international buyers to answer the
questionnaire published on the www.computex.biz. According to the result of
survey, the
average index of the whole buyers is 1.72, which is in the Very Good area. The
results from the international buyers and the suppliers are very similar. The
origin of buyers by continent is divided as 60% from Asia, 22% from Europe, 8%
from North America, 5% from South America and 5% from Africa. There were 397
effective samples out of 5,099 buyers did participated. |