148 5 0 hardware sector comprises six sub sectors these are semiconductors computer systems including mainframes servers and pcs data storage networking equipment lan wan wlan handsets handhelds video customer premises cpe such as set top boxes game consoles 149 key statistics 2001 global revenue us 614 billion australian a 12 or 1 of expected growth rate to 2005 3 market structure varied less standardised markets high concentration for example in end hold 71 share low desktop computers 10 57 multinationals mncs account approximately 8 sales companies recorded mainly distribution manufacture system electronics with embedded software this section provides brief overview the whole followed by more detailed profiles each exhibit 11 semi conductors & others eg workstations printers etc
