India PC market grew 13% in 3rd quarter

The consumer segment accounted for 55% of PC shipments.

The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 2.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011,a 13 per cent increase over the same period in the last calendar year,according to technology research firm Gartner,Inc.

“This growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market which grew 29 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2011,” said Vishal Tripathi,Principal Research Analyst at Gartner.

“A number of festivals helped drive demand in the consumer market in India. The third quarter was the best quarter in the history of the Indian PC industry as overall PC shipments crossed 3 million units for the first time,” he said.

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The consumer segment accounted for 55 per cent of PC shipments.

“However,we need to be cautious and should not expect the same success to be replicated in the fourth quarter. After the post-festive season there will be sluggishness in the market,” Tripathi said.

All the major multinational PC vendors experienced double digit growth in PC shipments in the third quarter of 2011. Multinational brands contributed more than half of the total PC shipments with shipments from Acer,Dell,HP and Lenovo,the top four vendors,representing 51.1 per cent of the market.

Local vendor HCL accounted for 5.6 per cent of PC shipments. It was the only vendor in top five to register a year-on-year decline in shipments in the third quarter,Gartner said.

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