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Indian IT Top View 2005-06: Hardware

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x86
Servers

Vendors

Units

2004-05

Units

2005-06

IBM

18,818

28,362

HP

17,249

25,559

HCL

10,121

14,670

Dell

8,420

13,455

Acer

3,712

4,204

Others

8,768

12,403

Total Units

67,093

98,653

Source: IDC India,
2006

X86
servers clocked a healthy 47% growth in unit terms with IBM
demonstrating huge traction. Meanwhile, Indian vendors such as HCL
also scaled up volumes impressively

Non
x86 Servers

Vendors

Units

2004-05

Units

2005-06

Sun Microsystems

3,540

4,079

IBM

876

2,051

HP

1,374

1,527

Others

56

54

Total Units

5,846

7,711

Source:
IDC India, 2006
With
32% growth in volumes terms, this segment saw rapid escalation of
IBM that saw its stature grow in the UNIX space



The
Desktop Lineup

Company

2004-05

Units

2005-06

Units

HCL

476,354

633,300

HP

427,620

608,899

IBM/Lenovo

203,658

293,000

Dell

104,930

159,940

Acer

109,065

151,433

LG

-

142,915

Zenith

126,699

139,335

PCS

112,569

128,191

Wipro

86,434

94,610

Syntech

-

12,525

Intex

-

7,880

Accel

4,225

7,278

Apple

25,000

-

Sahara

-

103,000

Total Branded

1,676,554

2,482,306

Assembled

1,680,870

1,569,935

Total

3,357,424

4,052,241

Source: IDC India,
2006 (all numbers in black)

All numbers in blue are from company
sources

HCL
and HP continue to dominate the desktop PC business. According to
the vendors in the fray, the key growth drivers during the year came
from verticals such as telecom, banking, retail, and ITeS

The
Portables Parade

Company

2004-05

Units

2005-06

Units

HP

75,058

230,963

Lenovo

61,848

116,000

Toshiba

20,106

40,598

LG

-

8,308

Dell

23,425

42,085

Zenith

7,200

26,657

HCL

2,925

13,400

Apple

500

-

Samsung

5,827

2,000

Acer

20,243

83,939

Wipro

2,294

2,877

PCS

-

4,250

Sahara

-

15,550

Others

568

1,965

Total

219,994

588,592

Source: IDC India,
2006 (all numbers in black)

All numbers in blue are from company
sources

HP
had a spectacular year with notebook volumes shipments growing by
207%. Battling HP on the Indian turf was Lenovo. Toshiba, LG, Dell
and Acer ended the fiscal with huge growth as compared to last year
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