Computers

摘要

A new trend has Intel on the outside. The average selling price of a PC dropped by nearly 25% in 1998. Forty-five percent of the PCs sold in retail stores last year were priced below $1,000. That's opened a chink in the Intel Corp. monopoly. Only half of the sub-$ 1,000 PCs have "Intel inside" chips. The rest come from rivals Advanced Micro Devices and scrappy upstart Cyrix Corp. Robust growth in services—the fees hardware companies charge for installing and maintaining computers—are compensating for drops in hardware prices.