India’s PC market growth less than 1 percent last year

The PC market in the country has increased only by 0.3 percent last year. However, in the fourth quarter of the previous year, the market has fallen by 28.5 percent. The market includes desktops, notebooks and workstations. In the fourth quarter, the notebook category decreased by 37.8 percent, while the desktop shipments increased.

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the consumer segment of this market has decreased by 27.4 percent on the year-on-year basis and the enterprise segment by 42.6 percent due to high inflation and weak sentiments. However, the government and education segments have increased by 117.6 percent and 28.3 percent respectively. Desktops and workstations recorded a growth of 32.3 percent and 24.7 percent on a year-by-year basis but the notebook category was 8.4 percent. The category of premium notebooks increased by 14.6 percent but the commercial segment was 7.9 percent.

Shipments have decreased by 9.4 percent last year through online channels. HP ranks first in the PC market of the country. Its market share is 30.3 percent but it has decreased by 3.2 percent on a year-by-year basis. The second place is the American company Dell. Its market share is 19.2 percent and has reduced by one percent compared to the previous year. China’s Lenovo ranks third. Its market share was 18.9 percent and has an annual growth of 3.1 percent. After this, Acer and ASUS are with a market share of 9.9 percent and 6.8 percent respectively.

At the end of the previous year in China, the re -increasing cases of Corona have affected many industries. This is also expected to affect the launch of new PC and laptop. The suppliers of companies making personal computers and laptops in China also increased due to corona. This will delay shipments, which will affect the availability of products like new laptops. Contract manufacturing firms like Comple, Inventc, Quanta and Wistron did not face the shortage of components or workers. He did not ask his suppliers to increase production due to the presence of inventory and not much demand in the first quarter.