Preparing computers and electronic components

According to the Ministry of Trade, from the beginning of February until now, the price of electronic components such as Intel microprocessors and high-capacity RAM in the market has continuously decreased.

In addition, electronic products such as Acer laptops, LCD monitors are also in a downward trend.

It is forecasted that from now until the end of the year, this market will continue to have "big discounts" to solve old products and launch new products with superior features. In addition, this market is suffering from fierce competition from products that are imported from China at 'unexpected' prices.

Processor, large capacity ram discount up to 20%

The Ministry of Commerce said that Intel's retail price of processors (VXL) has continuously decreased. The biggest drop was the Pentium 4 631 - 3.0 Ghz, down 9.3%, followed by the Pentium 4 541 - 3.2 GHz (Tray and Box), down 8.7% and 9.2%, respectively. Although the Pentium series outperformed the Celeron during this period, the biggest drop was compared to the same period last month, the Celeron D326 - 2.53 GHz (Tray and Box), which decreased by 20.8%, followed by Celeron D331 - 2.66 GHz (Tray and Box), down 16% and 19.3%, respectively .

In addition to the microprocessor, the large capacity ram types also dropped sharply, especially large-capacity RAM such as DDR2-553 / 667 1GB Kingston, a reduction of 10-12 USD / bar, followed by DDR2 667-512MB RAM Corsair Because retail prices fell continuously at a strong level for a month, the biggest drop was compared to DDR2-800 2.0GB Corsair over the same period last month, down to over US $ 80 per bar.

Acer laptop reduced by 50 USD / unit

The retail price of laptops (laptops) on the market is still continuously decreasing, but the decrease in the first month of 2007 is not as strong as the price cuts that caused many surprises in 2006, especially at the beginning of the fourth quarter. / 06, there are high-end products down to nearly 150 USD / unit.

During this time, the most discount is only about 50 USD / unit for the Acer Aspire 5634WLMi, the current price is 1,360 USD / unit. Most high-end laptops are priced unchanged by the end of last month, while the majority of low-end and mid-end products are reduced by about US $ 10 per unit, such as Acer Aspire 5101NWLMi, Compaq- HP Presario V3186TU, Toshiba Tecra A8-1014E, IBM-Lenovo Thinkpad R60 9455-A34

However, the price of MTXT will continue to fall sharply due to competition with imported goods from China. Currently, Chinese businesses have reduced their prices by about RMB 200 / laptop (about $ 26 / unit).

This price reduction has partly created a positive impact, causing the import volume of Vietnamese enterprises to increase in the first week of February 2007, estimated the amount of imported laptops through Mong Cai border gate to more than 700 the set. Importing by small channels is also very exciting. Of the imported laptops, up to 70% are Acer laptop products, the rest are Dell, IBM and HP-Compaq.

According to preliminary statistics, current prices for Acer and Dell laptops are cheaper than those imported from Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia from 5-7% depending on type. This gap is increasingly attracting many Vietnamese enterprises to Mong Cai to import this item.

According to the source of imported laptops from Mong Cai border gate, currently, a number of laptops imported from here are still generating higher profits compared to being imported from other border gates, such as the low-end Compaq Presario C303TU 1.86. , retail price difference and import prices are nearly 50%. If compared to the middle class like IBM TP R60 9455A34 imported at Hai Phong port (Singapore), the current profit is only 25.8%.

AOC LCD monitor reduces price by nearly 10%

LCD display companies almost continuously cut retail prices of most of their products. The biggest drop in early February 2007 belonged to AOC products - the 17 inch 172V line - decreased by 9.8%. The next lot of discount products also belong to this type of 15 inch LM 566, 17 inch LM 728, the largest reduction is 5.9%.

In addition, a number of Asus and Sony LCD monitors have reduced to a negligible level. Compared to the same period last month, AOC LM728 is the product with the strongest retail price drop, about 11.8%. Notably, as well as the unusual price increase of some products such as Viewsonic VA712, VA1703B, VA703B last month, Acer's 20-inch (F-20 "Wide) LCD screen also increased by about 3 , 5%.