Kyodo
News have posted an interesting story about Fujifilm planing to reduce
its digital camera shipment outlook for fiscal year 2003 by 500,000, fearing
it will become difficult to procure components manufactured in China due
to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Company officials
said Wednesday "Digital cameras are strategic products, for which
demand has been rapidly expanding on a global basis, creating procurement
difficulties for some components."