With the backwash of the price war triggered by Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp in the Japanese personal computer market threatening to swamp it, NEC Corp is to cut prices on 12 personal computer models in its PC-9800 series sold in Japan by as much as 26%. The company says that the decision reflects indications of growing demand by businesses for low-priced high-end personal computer products – a strange phenomenon, no doubt, in a country where users have traditionally been prepared to pay whatever manufacturers ask – and is to make NEC more price-competitive in the market. The average price cuts for desktop models will be 17%, for notebooks 23%.
