NEW DELHI : India PC shipments grew 12% within the June quarter, though the variety of items shipped in the course of the quarter fell under the 5 million mark for the primary time in 4 quarters, exhibits market researcher Canalys’ newest report, revealed Monday. A complete of 4.6 million PCs together with laptops, desktops, and tablets had been shipped in the course of the quarter.
With 2.6 million items, laptops accounted for lower than half of the PC shipments, nonetheless, it grew at simply 2% year-on-year (YoY) as demand within the shopper phase weakened as a result of reopening of colleges. Pill shipments additionally grew at a modest 9% YoY to succeed in 1.1 million items. As compared, desktop shipments soared at an unprecedented 70% YoY clocking 900,000 items in the course of the quarter, in accordance with the report.
The sharp dip within the shopper market ended seven consecutive quarters of report enlargement, famous Ashweej Aithal, the analyst at Canalys.
Aithal stated that laptops accounted for 61% of the market within the June quarter of final yr. Nonetheless, it slumped to 48% this yr. “Decreased demand for tablets and notebooks contributed to the buyer market decline, with shipments of the 2 classes down 23% and 11% respectively,” he added.
In the meantime, the industrial phase grew 50% YoY and now accounts for 52% of the general PC market. Aithal attributes this to the enlargement of native manufacturing by PC distributors to develop into eligible for presidency contracts for PCs.
As an example, HP expanded native pocket book manufacturing, which has helped it purchase orders from the general public sector. Equally, Acer has partnered with contract producer Dixon Applied sciences and Lenovo is strengthening native provide for tablets and notebooks with its third manufacturing lineup, identified Aithal.
By way of market share, HP was the main PC vendor with 25% of the market on the again of 1.1 million unit shipments. Analysts attributed HP’s continued dominance to its “aggressive retail outlet enlargement” throughout the nation.
Lenovo with 21.1% market share and 973,000 unit shipments was the second main vendor but once more. Dell, Acer, and Samsung had been the opposite three main manufacturers within the prime 5 with 11.5%, 11.3%, and 5.8% of market share, respectively.
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