New Delhi: As per the IDC report,Lenovo shared in the second position despite witnessing a 62.7 percent decline in its overall shipments. HP's strong performance in the commercial segment was supported by a few large wins & helped the company to maintain its lead in the overall PC category.
According to the IDC ‘Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker' the overall, Indian traditional PC market inclusive of desktops, notebooks and workstations declined by 37.3percentyear-over-year (YoY) in the second quarter.
Also, among the top five companies, HP was the only company to have a positive annual growth rate in the commercial segment, as its shipments grew 11.8 percent (YoY) in 2Q20.
Bharath Shenoy, Market Analyst, PC Devices, IDC India says, "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."
In the product categories, desktop PCs were the most impacted with a 46.4 percent decline but the discounting Lenovo's mega-deal of 1.1 million units with the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), notebooks grew 17.6 percent from the same time a year ago.
According to Jaipal Singh, Associate Research Manager, Client Devices, IDC India, as most of the big orders for business continuity planning have been more or less executed in the quarter gone by and the PC market is now expected to face challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis with the looming economic situation.