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India saw record notebook sales in Q2, HP led overall PC market: IDC
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Aug, 2020
India witnessed a record buying
of notebooks by the enterprises as millions of employees worked from
home in the June quarter as HP led the overall traditional PC market
once again with the 32.8 per cent market share, a new IDC report said on
Tuesday.
Lenovo with 27.5 per cent market share replaced Dell
(17.8 per cent share) in the second position despite witnessing a 62.7
per cent decline in its overall shipments.
Overall, the India
traditional PC market inclusive of desktops, notebooks and workstations
declined by 37.3 per cent year-over-year (YoY) in the second quarter,
said the IDC ‘Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker'.
HP's
strong performance in the commercial segment was supported by a few
large wins and helped the company to maintain its lead in the overall PC
category.
Also, among the top five companies, it was the only
company to have a positive annual growth rate in the commercial segment,
as its shipments grew 11.8 per cent (YoY) in 2Q20.
"Despite the
supply and logistics challenges in the first half of the quarter,
companies executed most of the large orders in 2Q20. Also, many
companies shifted their employees to notebooks for the first time," said
Bharath Shenoy, Market Analyst, PC Devices, IDC India.
In the product categories, desktop PCs were the most impacted with a 46.4 per cent decline.
However,
discounting Lenovo's mega-deal of 1.1 million units with the
Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), notebooks grew 17.6 per
cent from the same time a year ago.
According to Jaipal Singh,
Associate Research Manager, Client Devices, IDC India, as most of the
big orders for business continuity planning have been more or less
executed in the quarter gone by, "the PC market is now expected to face
challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis and the looming economic
situation".
"Enterprise buying will come back down to earth and SMB demand is expected to remain muted for some quarters," said Singh.
The
consumer segment had a relatively small quarter since the market was
operational for just 45 days due to countrywide lockdown in the first
half of the quarter.
However, strong demand from eLearning was able to cover the gap to some extent.
The
overall consumer segment saw a YoY decline of 21 per cent but was able
to recover from the previous quarter's low with 3.3 per cent
quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) growth in 2Q20.
"Online buying played
an important role in this quarter; as a result, vendors shipped almost
one-third of their PCs to online channels," said the report.
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