The India Client Personal Computer (PC) market witnessed a 20% year-on-year growth in unit shipments (FY 07 over FY 06), according to IDC's India Quarterly PC Tracker, 1Q 2007 release. With this the total installed base of PCs in India grew to more than 22 million, that is, a PC for approximately every 50 Indians.

During 1Q 2007, the overall Client PC market grew 15.9% year-on-year (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006) in terms of unit shipments. For the same period (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006), desktop PC shipments showed a growth of 6.3%, while notebook PC shipments showed a growth of 73.1% (1Q 2007 over 1Q 2006).

Overall Client PC installed base in the country recorded a CAGR of 32.3% to grow from 9.5 million in 2003 to cross 22 million in 2006.

“The country has one PC for every 50 Indians today. Post liberalisation blues have given way to a robust economy that is fuelling increasing spends on IT infrastructure by corporates and Government, and on PCs by the home and Education segments. PCs form the backbone of IT adoption,” said Kapil Dev Singh, country manager, IDC India.

“However, we still have miles to go as a country to evolve an ecosystem that would help to take this trend to the next level, so that the benefits of computerisation reach to the masses,” he added.

In the overall Client PC (Notebooks and Desktops combined) market, HP retained the top spot with a market share of 21.2%, followed by HCL at 13.5%, and Lenovo at 9.5%, in terms of unit shipments during FY 07.