VIA’s Director of International Marketing is supporting the possibility that the UMPC market could grow to 10% of the global PC market by 2010.

In his personal blog Richard Brown writes:

I see no problem at all in this segment accounting for 10% of the overall PC market by 2010

I still don’t think its going to be that big in such a short time. I’m taking these figures as marketing figures. They have that built-in ‘encourage the market’ factor! I hope that I’m wrong though. A 300% increase will keep me busy for a while and might even earn the site a few pennies along the way. Pennies that I can plough back into buying, testing, opening up and breaking all the newest UMPC kit!

Note: In my previous post on the subject I made a calculation error. The global PC market is around 250 Millions units. Not 500 Million units. (Lucky I’m not a product manager eh!) Here’s the updated graph: