TelecomTV TelecomTV
  • News
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Events
  • Directory
  • Smart Studio
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • DSP Leaders World Forum
  • DSP Leaders
  • Great Telco Debate
    • |
    • Follow
    • |
    • Subscribe
  • |
  • More
  • Webcasts
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • Great Telco Debate
  • |
  • Follow TelecomTV
  • |
    • Subscribe
    • |
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Help
  • Contact
  • Follow TelecomTV
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Help
  • Contact
  • Sign In Register Subscribe
    • Subscribe
    • Sign In
    • Register
  • Search

Coronavirus

TelecomTV TRACKER

Sourced by TelecomTV's TRACKER platform
from IDC

Coronavirus

Remote working leads to record buying of notebooks by enterprises in 2Q20, reports IDC India

Via IDC

Aug 13, 2020

NEW DELHI, August 11, 2020 – The India traditional PC market inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations declined by 37.3% year-over-year (YoY) in the second quarter of 2020 (CY 2Q20), closing the quarter with a total of 2.1 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.

The large decline was an outcome of an unfavorable YoY comparison against 2Q19, which was the biggest quarter in the past five years as Lenovo executed one mega-deal of 1.1 million units to Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT). Outside this deal, the PC market saw an annual decline of 6.3% in 2Q20. In the product categories, desktop PCs were the most impacted with a 46.4% decline. However, discounting Lenovo’s ELCOT deal, notebooks grew 17.6% from the same time a year ago.

The countrywide lockdown forced everyone to work from home, resulting in strong demand for notebooks as enterprises rushed to ensure business continuity by providing its workforce the required infrastructure to work at home. Most IT services, global enterprises, and consulting companies placed large orders for notebook PCs. This led to an all-time high of enterprise notebook purchases with shipments growing by 105.5% YoY in 2Q20. As a result, enterprises reduced desktop buying and even converted a few orders to notebooks. SMBs also increased their procurement of notebooks with relatively moderate growth of 12.1% YoY in 2Q20.

“The demand for notebooks exceeded expectations with most of the vendors exiting the quarter with minimum inventory. 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; this change is surely going to alter their procurement strategy in the long term with a mix of in-office and remote workforce becoming a reality for many organizations,” says Bharath Shenoy, Market Analyst, PC Devices, IDC India.

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% but was able to recover from the previous quarter’s low with 3.3% 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.

Top 5 Company Highlights: 2Q20

HP Inc. retained the top position in the overall PC market with a share of 32.8% in 2Q20. 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, amongst 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% YoY in 2Q20.

Lenovo replaced Dell in the second position despite witnessing a 62.7% decline in its overall shipments. Outside of the ELCOT deal, the company had a very good quarter with its shipments growing 31.6% YoY, mainly supported by growth in the SMB, enterprise, and consumer segments.

Dell Technologies finished the quarter in the third place while declining 21.8% YoY, mainly driven by the strong decline in its desktop shipments. Despite this, it was able to secure the second position in the enterprise segment.

Acer Group retained the fourth position with a 9.9% market share in 2Q20. It was carrying a backlog of certain orders that finally got shipped in this quarter. This helped the company to secure the leading position in the commercial desktop segment. However, its overall shipments saw a 34.7% decline when compared to the same time a year ago.

ASUS maintained the fifth position and registered an impressive 55.5% YoY growth in the overall PC market. ASUS also emerged as the third-largest consumer brand replacing Dell this quarter. Its aggressive offline expansion with its extended thin and light portfolio worked in favor of the brand.

More Info

Related Topics
  • Announcement,
  • Asia-Pacific,
  • Business Models,
  • Devices,
  • Enterprise,
  • IDC,
  • Tracker

More Like This

Security

Vodafone offers broadband with automatic 4G back-up

Mar 5, 2021

Sustainability

O2 highlights the UK’s digital divide, says seven million people still unable to access a web-connected device

Mar 3, 2021

Work from home/remote desktop

As unlocked-down employees return they’re looking for change

Feb 25, 2021

Strategic Outlook: Open RAN and 5G

BT’s 5G Journey: Executive Insight from Howard Watson (BT CTIO)

Feb 24, 2021

Digital Platforms & Services

Most organisations will invest in dedicated, managed connectivity for homeworkers, survey finds

Feb 18, 2021

This content extract was originally sourced from an external website (IDC) and is the copyright of the external website owner. TelecomTV is not responsible for the content of external websites. Legal Notices

Email Newsletters

Stay up to date with the latest industry developments: sign up to receive TelecomTV's top news and videos plus exclusive subscriber-only content direct to your inbox – including our daily news briefing and weekly wrap.

Subscribe

Top Picks

Highlights of our content from across TelecomTV today

18:24

How Zoom evolved in the pandemic era

26:24

Red Hat and HPE discuss how to support open multi-vendor 5G network slices

14:28

How RADCOM is helping Rakuten Mobile run its innovative 5G network

8:33

Monetizing innovative telco edge services

  • TelecomTV
  • Decisive Media

TelecomTV is produced by the team at Decisive Media

Menu
  • News
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Directory
  • Smart Studio
 
  • Surveys
  • Debates
  • Perspectives
  • Events
  • About Us
Our Brands
  • TelecomTV Tracker
  • TelecomTV Perspectives
  • DSP Leaders
  • DSP Leaders World Forum
  • The Great Telco Debate
Get In Touch
[email protected]
+44 (0) 207 448 1070

Request a Media Pack

Follow
  • © Decisive Media Limited 2021. All rights reserved. All brands and products are the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Legal Notices