NEC is going be struggling in a number of areas, much less with the sale of their PC arm. If you ask me, this will be the least of their problems as thing continue to push forward.

Analysts believe NEC will struggle to find a buyer for its PC business in Europe.

The hardware manufacturer is currently in talks to sell Packard Bell, in a move that would see it pull out of the European home-use PC market.

However, Gartner analysts believe that Packard Bell will be on the market “for quite some time” before finding a buyer.

“Packard Bell will be on the market for at least a year,” predicted Ranjit Atwal, principle analyst for Gartner. “None of the established PC vendors would gain any benefit from purchasing it, as they’re already in the channels Packard Bell exists in, and it wouldn’t be easy to ensure incremental shipments simply by purchasing it,” Atwal told ZDNet UK…. Source: ZDNet UK

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