Indian PC market logs biggest quarter in 7 years after surge in e-learning, remote working needs: IDC

E-learning and distant working wants have helped the Indian PC market log its greatest quarter in seven years with cargo rising 9.2% year-on-year to three.Four million items in July-September, as per analysis agency IDC.

The cargo – which incorporates desktops, notebooks and workstations – stood at 3.1 million items within the third quarter of 2019.

“(About) 3.4 million units (were) shipped during the quarter, as the demand for e-learning and remote working remained strong, resulting in Q3 2020 being the biggest quarter in the last seven years in India,” IDC mentioned on Tuesday.

Although the business section had only a few authorities and schooling initiatives, the patron section recorded its greatest quarter ever with 2 million shipments, rising 41.7% year-on-year and 167.2% from the earlier quarter, it added.

The demand for notebooks stays a lot increased than the present provide, which is more likely to result in one other robust quarter of shipments in October-December, it mentioned.

HP Inc retained the highest place within the total PC market with a share of 28.2% in September 2020 quarter, adopted by Lenovo (21.7%), Dell Technologies (21.3%), Acer Group (9.5%) and Asus (7.5%).

IDC mentioned colleges and schools continued to operate nearly, resulting in a surge in demand for client notebooks, particularly in giant cities. Despite the provision challenges, distributors have been capable of refill for the upcoming on-line festivals.

New entrants like Xiaomi and Avita have been capable of leverage this chance however remained exterior of the highest 5 firms within the client section.

Apple shipments additionally grew 19.4% year-on-year because it ended its greatest quarter of shipments within the nation, IDC famous.

“There is still a lot of uncertainty if and when will the schools and colleges return to physical classrooms at full strength. This is forcing students to manage all their learning virtually. This demand is expected to stay strong as India remains under penetrated in PCs,” Bharath Shenoy, market analyst for PC Devices at IDC India, mentioned.

He added that the rising broadband connectivity within the nation is making on-line studying simpler for college students, and due to this fact this chance will proceed to be related for PC distributors for not less than a number of extra quarters.

In the business section, enterprises continued investing in PCs underneath their enterprise continuity planning to handle their distant working necessities.

However, the amount of key huge offers has come down on this second wave of enterprise shopping for as in comparison with preliminary orders within the June 2020 quarter.

This led to a marginal 3.1% year-on-year progress within the total enterprise section, IDC mentioned.

otebook shipments grew at a powerful 70.1% year-on-year as enterprises most well-liked them over desktops.

Small and medium companies (SMBs) resumed their purchases after taking a slight pause as enterprise operations began for a lot of the sectors with a rest within the lockdown restrictions, IDC mentioned.

Shipments to this section grew 5.5% year-on-year in September quarter 2020, it added.

However, this progress can be attributed to channel procurement for higher management over inventories amid the unsure provide state of affairs within the ecosystem, it added.

“Anticipating a longer work from home possibility, enterprises are getting ready for a larger mobile workforce and keep reducing their dependency on desktops. Also, SMBs started showing more momentum and will be critical in sustaining the ongoing growth in the commercial segment. Unfortunately, shortages of some key components continue to be a challenge,” IDC India Associate Research Manager Client Devices Jaipal Singh mentioned.

Vendors that can be capable to handle the provides of those elements will profit from this chance extra as there may be nonetheless numerous untapped demand for PCs within the nation, he added.