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PC shipments register 12% rise in 2002 in India: Gartner
February 05, 2003 14:20 IST
Personal computer shipments registered about 12 per cent increase in India in 2002 at 2 million units over 2001 shipments due to increased hardware spendings by finance, banking and telecom companies, Gartner Dataquest Asia-Pacific survey said on Wednesday.
PC shipments have grown around 11.8 per cent over 2001, Vinod Nair, research analyst, hardware platforms, Gartner India said in a release while adding the large spenders continue to be finance, banking and telecom verticals.
In terms of marketshare, India was positioned fourth at 9.5 per cent of the total Asia-Pacific shipments.
While the slowdown and past events compromised its hardware growth rates, India managed to remain fairly resilient in the face of such adversity in 2002, Nair said.
Vendors are increasingly developing strategies to tap government orders while education is gaining significance in terms of hardware training, he said.
While Asia Pacific PC markets growth rate at 8.6 per cent at 21.7 million units over 2001 figures, China remained at the top with 43 per cent of all shipments in the Asia-Pacific region and much of the growth in the region came from Thailand and India, the release said.
Globally PC market grew three per cent in 2002, it said.
Mature markets like Hong Kong and Singapore suffered negative growth rates in 2002 because of sluggish economies an unemployment rates affecting IT spending.
PC shipments in China touched 9 million units in 2002 followed by South Korea (three million units) and Australia (2.1 million units) with India in fourth position with a shipment figure of 2 million units).
Taiwan had a PC shipment of 1.2 million units in 2002.
Legend remained the number one PC vendor in Asia Pacific followed by Hewlett-Packard and Dell was the only top-tier vendor to experience double-digit growth in 2002.
On PC shipment growth in India, Nair said organisations that have been reluctant in utilising their hardware budgets have started easing their restraints.
The markets look positive and there are indications that organisations are buying PCs.
"The Asia-Pacific market's growth was a significant contributor to the worldwide industry returning to positive growth in 2002," Lillian Tay, senior analyst, Gartner, Asia-Pacific, said.
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