new delhi computer hardware association mait on friday ruled out an immediate scaling down of sales target of 165 million units for 200102 but said it would wait till midfebruary to take a decision based on the evolving situation arising out of global price hike of the memory chips as of now we have not taken up the matter of a downward revision of our sales target of 165 million units but as the situation evolves on the pc price rise front due to price hike of memory chips and other inputs like lcds we will wait till midfebruary to take a final decision on it vinnie mehta director manufacturers association of information technology said if the price hike is short term in the sense it continues for two months or a quarter then there may not be a need to revise the figures he said adding if continued beyond this people would defer buying plans leading to fall in sales it all depends on how long the trend continues by the middle of the fourth quarter midferuary we will have a stocktaking on the emerging situation after which mait will decide on the revision mehta added pc manufacturers are in the process of hiking or have already effected the intitial rise to factor in the increase in memory chip costs mainly whose price has shot up at the global level by 3050 per cent mait has already revised its sales projections downward to 165 million units from 245 million units a fall of 3265 per cent in the current fiscal due to slowdown and poor buying sentiments even during the first half of the current fiscal pcs sales have fallen by 4 per cent to 803 lakh units from 834 lakh units during the corresponding period a year ago it major hewlett packard india has said that it is still reviewing the decision on the price hike of its pcs and servers while maintaining that if at all there is a need for it the decision will be implemented in february we have not yet finalised on the hike as the company is currently exploring the options on how to avoid the increase but if the decision is taken on raising the prices to absorb the component costs the decision will be implemented in february hp country manager sales subin joseph said