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

The PC market in the country grew by only 0.3 percent last year. However, a decline of 28.5 percent has been recorded in this market in the fourth quarter of the previous year. This market includes desktops, notebooks and workstations. The notebook category declined 37.8 percent in the fourth quarter, while desktop shipments increased.

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the consumer segment of this market declined by 27.4 per cent and the enterprise segment by 42.6 per cent on a year-on-year basis due to high inflation and weak sentiment. However, the government and education segments saw a growth of 117.6 per cent and 28.3 per cent, respectively. desktop and workstations reported year-on-year growth of 32.3 percent and 24.7 percent, but the notebook category was down 8.4 percent. The premium notebooks category grew by 14.6 percent but the commercial segment was down by 7.9 percent.

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

The resurgence of Corona cases in China at the end of last year has affected many industries. This is also expected to affect the launch of new PCs and laptops. The difficulties of suppliers of personal computer and laptop manufacturing companies in China had also increased due to Corona. This will delay shipments, which will affect the availability of products such as new laptops. Contract manufacturing firms such as Compal, Inventec, Quanta and Wistron did not suffer from shortages of components or workers. They did not ask their suppliers to increase production because of the inventory they had and the demand was not expected to be very high in the first quarter.