Personal computer sales in India registered about 12 per cent growth in 2002 at two million units over 2001 due to increased hardware spending by the finance, banking and telecom companies, market research firm Gartner Dataquest said in its latest Asia-Pacific survey.
The personal computer shipments had grown about 11.8 per cent over 2001, said Vinod Nair, research analyst, hardware platforms, Gartner India, adding that the large spenders continued to be the finance, banking and telecom verticals.
In terms of marketshare, India was positioned fourth at 9.5 per cent of the total Asia Pacific personal computer sales.
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 personal computer 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 the personal computer 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 infotech spending.
The personal computer sales in China touched nine 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 personal computer sales of 1.2 million units in 2002.
Legend remained the number one personal computer vendor in Asia Pacific followed by Hewlett Packard and Dell was the only top-tier vendor to experience double-digit growth in 2002.
On the personal computer sales 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 personal computers.
"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.
