‘PC sales rise 33 pct in India’

Sales of personal computers (PCs) have risen in India by as much as 33 percent.

Sales of personal computers (PCs) have risen in India by as much as 33 percent during the first three months of this year from a year ago,spurred by consumer confidence and a revival in IT spends,research firm IDC said on Monday.

Sales of desktop computers,which accounted for about two-thirds of the total PC sales of 2.2 million units in the quarter,rose 18 percent to 1.4 million units.

Notebook computer sales surged 72 percent 803,000 units.

This performance underscores a more broad-based recovery in the India PC market,Anirban Banerjee,associate vice president,research,at IDC India said in a note.

The consumer segment saw PC sales jump 42 percent in the quarter,while shipments to the commercial segment rose 28 percent,IDC said.

For the fiscal year ended March,computer sales revived to record a 7.6 percent rise,from a 8.1 percent decline a year earlier,IDC added.

Hewlett-Packard held on to its top slot in the overall PC market with a market share of 16.5 percent,followed by Dell Inc and Acer with 13.6 percent and 13 percent market share respectively.

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