The fast-growing China market will surpass① the United States as the top consumer of PCs by 2010.
China has become Intel’s number two market， trailing② only the United States in terms of sales.
For PCs， China has beeneasily number two. China will be equal or larger than the U.S. as a consumption market by 2010.
China’s PC consumption was now about half the U.S. level but “significantly” higher than in Japan.
Emerging market—the biggest of which is China—growth relative to mature markets is going to continue to be faster.
In a nod to China’s growing importance to the company， Intel said it would build a US375 million chip test and assembly③ plant in the interior Chinese city of Chengdu—its first such new plant since it announced plans to upgrade its Shanghai facility in 2001.
Intel has invested US500 million in the Shanghai plant， where it performs test and assembly work for flash memory chips， most commonly associated with mobile phones.
Constructions of the Chengdu plant focus on logic products commonly associated with the processors at the heart of personal computers.
① surpassv. 胜过；优于；大于；多于[(+in)]
② trailv. 落后于
③ assemblyn. (机械的)装配[U]
中国个人电脑赶超美国
预计到2010年，飞速增长的中国市场将超过美国而成为世界上最大的个人电脑消费国。
中国现已成为英特尔公司的第二大市场，在市场销售份额上仅次于美国。
对于电脑产业来说，中国很容易会成为第二大市场的。中国会在2010年，作为消费者市场，中国将与美国市场规模相当，或者超过美国市场。
中国个人电脑消费总量现在大约是美国的一半，但要比目前的日本 “明显”高出许多。
与成熟市场相比，新兴市场——中国是其中最大的市场，其增长将持续保持较高速度。
在认可中国增长对公司重要性的同时，英特尔公司说它将在中国内陆城市成都投资3.75亿美元建立一个芯片测试和装配厂——这是该公司于2001年宣布要更新它在上海的设备后投资建立的第一家新工厂。
英特尔在上海的工厂已经投资5亿美元，这个工厂负责闪存记忆芯片的检测和装配，绝大多数都是与手机相关的配件。
成都工厂建筑工程的重点用于开发与个人电脑中心处理器相联系的逻辑产品上。
