Only someone deliberately trying to deceive would choose to compare IDC to Gartner numbers instead of IDC to IDC numbers.
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Sounds about 30k to 50k processors too low for the sum of 2003 and 2004 and about 40 to 70k too low for all IPF MPUs shipped to the end of 2004.
Too low compared to you assumptions. The claims figure is for actual shipments. Shouldn't that be a good reason for you to revisit you assumptions, rather let u know how much they are short of your assumptions? You are starting to sound like Adi on Aces.