New Delhi, June 12, 2007  – In a year that witnessed all-round economic growth, the India Client Personal Computer (PC) market witnessed a 20% year-on-year growth in unit shipments (FY 07 over FY 06), according to IDC's India Quarterly PC Tracker, 1Q 2007 release. With this the total installed base of PCs in India grew to more than 22 million, that is, a PC for approximately every 50 Indians.

In the overall Client PC (Notebooks and Desktops combined) market the rankings remained unchanged. HP retained the top spot with a market share* of 21.2%, followed by HCL at 13.5%, and Lenovo at 9.5%, in terms of unit shipments during FY 07. In terms of total desktop PC shipments*, HP narrowly led the market, followed by HCL and Lenovo in second and third spots during FY 07.

In terms of commercial desktop PC shipments* HCL led the market in FY 07 followed by HP and Lenovo. On the other hand, in terms of consumer desktop PC shipments* HP led the market in FY 07 followed by HCL and Zenith.

In the Notebook PC market alone HP retained the top spot with a market share of 39.6% in FY 07 in unit shipment terms. Lenovo came in at the second spot with 17.6% market share and Toshiba climbed up to take the third spot replacing Dell. During 1Q 2007, HCL outpaced Toshiba and Dell to grab the third spot.

India PC Shipments by Form Factor, FY 07 (April 2006 – March 2007)

	Year-on-Year Growth$	Year-on-Year ASV^ (Rs.) Growth/Decline$
Desktop PCs	11.0%	3.9%
Notebook PCs	85.6%	-12.2%
Client PC`  Total	20.6%	5.6%

$  Year-on-Year Growth – April 2006 - March 2007 over April 2005 - March 2006
^ ASV stands for Average Selling Value
`  Includes all Desktop PC and Notebook PC shipments

1Q 2007 Performance
During 1Q 2007, the overall Client PC market grew 15.9% year-on-year (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006) in terms of unit shipments. For the same period (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006), desktop PC shipments showed a growth of 6.3%, while notebook PC shipments showed a growth of 73.1% (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006).

During 1Q 2007, in terms of unit shipments of total desktop PCs, HCL narrowly led the market by recording a market share of 16.9%. In terms of unit shipments of notebook PCs during the quarter (1Q 2007) HP, Lenovo and HCL took the top three spots.

The key market highlights during the fiscal year were:

• Overall India Client PC installed base crossed 22 million, more than doubling in three years

• Notebook PC shipments showed significant growth, capturing 20% of the total Client PC shipments 

Overall India Client PC installed base crossed 22 million, more than doubling in three years
Overall Client PC installed base in the country recorded a CAGR of 32.3% to grow from 9.5 million in 2003 to cross 22 million in 2006, thereby more than doubling in a three-year time frame. 

“The country has one PC for every 50 Indians today. This represents a watershed era in the history of the Indian PC market. Post liberalisation blues have given way to a robust economy that is fuelling increasing spends on IT infrastructure by corporates and Government, and on PCs by the home and Education segments. PCs form the backbone of IT adoption,” said Kapil Dev Singh, Country Manager, IDC India.

“However, we still have miles to go as a country to evolve an ecosystem that would help to take this trend to the next level, so that the benefits of computerisation reach to the masses,” he added

Notebook PC shipments show significant growth, capturing almost 20% of total Client PC shipments
From a shipments share of 6.1% in FY 05, notebook PC shipments grew to 12.7% in FY 06 and ended FY 07 at almost 20% of the overall Client PC market (in shipment terms). This performance was contributed to a large measure by buoyant commercial notebook PC shipments that grew on account of robust demand from the large enterprise, SMB and Education segments. Consumer notebook PC shipments recorded more than 100% growth year-on-year (FY 07 over FY 06).

According to Piyush Pushkal, Manager, PC Research, IDC India, “Affordability has pulled both the supply and demand sides together for the past few quarters in the notebook PC market. This form factor is expected to grow promisingly with educational institutions as well as businesses being the major contributors.”

Note for Editors: 
Commercial Desktops: All desktop units shipped to the business, government, or education markets, regardless of vendor hardware definition.

Consumer Desktops: All desktop units shipped to the home market, regardless of vendor hardware definition. All desktop units not shipped to the home market are excluded from this segment

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* As per IDC’s India Quarterly PC Tracker, 1Q 2007 release