In the first three months of 2025, India shipped 3.3 million desktop computers, laptops, and workstations, according to research firm IDC. That’s an 8.1% jump compared to the same time last year.
Analytics firm Canalys said the total shipments of desktops and notebooks were down by 11.5% with a total of 62.1 million units. This follows two consecutive quarters of PC shipments decline by over 30%.
The company also missed analyst estimates for PC and data center chips sales for the first quarter, and its shares fell over 6% in extended trading.
This was Lenovo's second consecutive quarter with a decline in revenue
The maker of Windows has seen demand slide for its ubiquitous computer software as the spike in inflation forces businesses and consumers to pull back on spending.
According to a study released on Thursday by International Data Corporation (IDC), the shipment of computers in India increased by 17.8% to 3.7 million units during the April–June 2022 quarter.
IDC, in its report, noted that while shipment had grown sequentially, the sales had declined by 10.6 per cent compared to July-September 2017 quarter "owing to increased sell-in due to goods and services tax (GST) implementation in Q3 2017".
Shares of the world's largest chipmaker rose 2.2 percent to USD38.38 in extended trading on Thursday.
The ongoing cash crisis is expected to pull down feature phone shipments sharply by 24.6 percent and that of smartphone by 17.5 percent during the quarter compared to the previous three-month period.
Raj Shankar, Deputy MD, Redington India said that the margin might get impacted going forward due to pricing pressure.
Some Dell Inc shareholders said on Wednesday they are pressuring the board to come up with a contingency plan should a proposed USD 24.4 billion buyout of the No 3 PC maker fail in the face of investor opposition.
Lenovo, the personal computer, smartphone and tablet maker is all set to grow its presence in India and aims to become a numero uno vendor for PCs and smartphone.
IDC's preliminary results show that the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market declined 8 percent sequentially and 13 percent year-on-year in 2013 Q1 to reach 26.4 million units.
Lenovo Group Ltd, on track to become the world's top maker of personal computers, reported a record quarterly profit, up 33.5 percent from a year earlier, as it gained more share in the PC market and made inroads in the smartphone business.
IDC's preliminary results show that the APEJ PC market declined 2% in full year 2012 to reach 121 million units, recording a full year contraction for the first time.
As per figures posted by Gartner yesterday, the combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India reached nearly 2.9 million units in the third quarter of
China experienced first negative growth; lenovo and ASUS gained market share.
As per latest figures released at the end of a research by Gartner Inc., the desk-based and mobile PC ...
Gartner expects PC shipment growth to continue in the third quarter of 2012 owing to the festive season and education buying, coupled with some more fulfilment of the Tamil Nadu Government order.
As per latest figures released by research firm IDC, computer shipments in India grew by 15.7 percent, registering 2.86 million units till June 2012...
In addition to rising consumer saturation in mature regions, economic uncertainty as well as the launch of Windows 8 and growth of competing tablet devices are key factors affecting the market outlook.
A recent report by Gartner Inc. to gauge the performance of the PC market in India through the first quarter of 2012 ...
Preliminary results show that the APAC(excluding Japan) PC market declined 2 percent sequentially but grew 3 percent year-on-year in 2012 Q1 to reach 29.4 million units.
Q1 growth was abnormally low, but it was good to see that the industry was generally able to work around supply constraints to keep the market moving.
The PC market has seen better days but things aren‘t slowing down just yet. IDC has released a report