Below are summaries of the key market segments: their importance, key issues to be aware of, and other information to help you determine the industries that gain significant advantage from personal workstations.
Digital Content Creation (DCC)
Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD)
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Business Visualization and Analysis
High-end Office
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Specialized applications for banking, insurance, securities trading Most financial institutions running mix of in-house and standard applications Consolidation in banking industry driving standardization of IT systems 18 to 20% increase in hiring in Financial Services segment driven by shift to e-Business Price-performance, real-time speed, ability to run office and mission-critical applications on a single workstation platform are key drivers Multi-monitor environment, higher per seat hardware value |
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Content development for film, broadcast, video, Internet, games Fastest-growing workstation industry segment Highly competitive landscape driving prices lower, performance requirements up Highly graphics intensive, requiring new price/performance levels of hardware Migration of leading applications to personalworkstation platforms has turned the corner Project collaboration over disparate locations typical in this segment |
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2D and 3D CAD design, modeling, and prototyping for industry Technical influencers are important Hardware sales highly dependent on customer application requirements Industry standard workstation platform acceptance lowers barriers to sales |
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Electrical engineering software for PCB and semiconductor design Over $3 billion market segment, 90% currently on RISC/UNIX (67% Sun) Hardware sales highly dependent on customer application requirements Big opportunity to win market segment share from traditional workstations Collaboration over intranet/lnternet requires fast I/O for sharing large, complex files |
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Applications that integrate and graphically display data for maps, satellite imagery, remote sensing device input Vertical market subsegments include defense, forestry, environmental protection, flood management, agriculture and hundreds of other uses Prevalent platform for high-end is RISC-based Mid-range applications are moving fast to IA-based workstations Entry-level platform mostly high-end PCs and entry-level workstations |
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Tools for decision support, data mining, data management, analysis, and visualization of data A new and fast growing market for workstations Fueled by the rapid growth of e-Business and e-Commerce New and powerful applications are lowering entry costs for businesses Many applications are Intel-based; price/performance favors Intel In many cases computation done locally with data from servers |
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