I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market
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I.B.M., whose first PC moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale.
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New statistics from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker show that commercial  demand for PCs is rising in tandem with the growing economy, with PC shipment  growth in the second quarter the highest since mid 1999.
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International Business Machines Corp.  has put its personal computing business up for sale in a deal  that could be worth as much as $2 billion, the New York Times  reported on Friday.
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Company is set to sell desktops on CompUSA's shelves, providing more competition for HP.
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International Business Machines Corp.  is reaping the rewards of a decade-long push into China's  business computer market and is eyeing upward of a 50 percent  share, China General Manager Henry Chow said.
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A European group says PCs and operating systems should be sold separately to boost competition.
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(InfoWorld) - Unbranded PCs assembled by small out-of-garage operations have about 45 percent share of India's PC market, according to an estimate by Intel. These PCs, also known as " white boxes" will continue to have a significant share of PC sales in India, said Ravichandran R., Intel's director of sales for South Asia, in an interview last week. Unbranded PC makers are particularly popular in small cities and towns, because of the low cost of their products, and as they are seen by customers as friendly neighborhood suppliers, who offer personalized support, he added. India's PC market crossed 5 million units last year, posting 25 percent cent year-on-year growth in unit shipments, according to research firm IDC (India) in Gurgaon. Unbranded PCs will not go away, but as prices of branded PCs come down, the share of unbranded PCs has been going down, said Kapil Dev Singh, country manager at IDC, on Monday. Most multinational PC brands may not find it profitable to operate in the low-cost segment addressed by unbranded PC makers, he added Recognizing that unbranded PC makers were a key component of the Indian market, Intel introduced over a decade ago the Genuine Intel Dealer (GID) program which gave the unbranded PC assemblers access to Intel technology and certification, and a degree of legitimacy in the market. Intel has since then introduced a three-tier Intel Channel Partner program which includes Premier partners that are value-added resellers, Associate partners that are volume vendors of unbranded PCs, and Registered partners which are smaller vendors. The company has about 9,000 of these partners that help address both urban and rural markets in India. About four years ago, Intel tried to get these channel partners to also get into assembling and selling notebook PCs, but that strategy has not as yet been very successful, said Ravichandran. Demand for notebook PCs through this channel is still low as notebook PC customers are brand conscious, he said. As the users of notebook PCs are mobile, moving from city to city, they require multi-location support which unbranded PC vendors cannot offer, he added. In the event, the unbranded PC vendors are re-selling branded notebook PCs from large Indian and multinational vendors. As unbranded PC makers are not assembling notebooks, that keeps them out ofÂ a fast growing market, said IDC's Singh. The notebook PC market grew 104 percent by unit shipments last year, much faster than desktop growth at 15 percent, according to IDC. Shipments of notebook PCs were close to 1 million units. A number of multinational notebook vendors have dropped prices on their entry-level notebooks, which has made them attractive even for some first time users, Ravichandran said. Besides offering mobility and flexibility, notebook PCs also offer battery backups which come in handy in small towns where there are frequent power outages, he added. But notebook PC prices have not dropped as low as that of desktops, with some high-end desktop configurations available for less than the cost of entry-level notebook PCs. Enterprises have also been slower than consumers in adopting notebook PCs because of worries about security, Ravichandran said. As a result the share of notebook PCs in the total PC units shipped is about 20 percent, but that will grow, he added.
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I.B.M. plans to announce that it will share the designs and technology for a fast-growing line of computers known as blade servers.
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NEW DELHI: IBMâs PC business sale could rock the Indian PC market. Virtually missing from the consumer PC market till now, IBM India is already drawing up a blueprint to sell PCs to households.
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This looks like the *real* beginning of the end for Itanium. The workstation market is two-fold. There are those that use workstations for computing tasks (scientific, visualization, whatever) and those that
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) is selling its PC business, marking the end of an era for the personal computing pioneer, according to a story published today in the New York Times. The report was not verified by IBM, which could not be reached for comment this morning.
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A substantial internal cultural shift is under way at I.B.M. so that it can remain a leader in innovation and better serve its customers.
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IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is reportedly in talks to sell its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a
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PC giant unveils consumer electronics strategy, including iPod music player, high-definition TVs and PCs that record TV shows.
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The electronic gadgets retailer talks up strategies for growth.
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(InfoWorld) - PCs sales for India grew 19 percent over the same period in the previous year, mainly on strong buying from a number of market segments including e-governance projects and the outsourcing industry, a hardware vendor group said Wednesday. A total of 2.96 million PCs were sold in the six months ended September 30 last year, the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT), an association in Delhi of computer hardware vendors, said Wednesday. PC sales are forecast to be close to 6.5 million for the Indian fiscal year ending March 31, primarily because of the strong Indian economy, the group said. Notebook sales grew by 180 percent in the six months to September 30, while the growth in desktop sales was about 8 percent, according to MAIT data.Â IntelÂ has forecast that the Indian market is moving towards buying more notebooks than desktop computers because of the mobility they offer. A number of multinational and local brands have slashed prices on their entry-level notebooks to cash in on this new market opportunity. Desktop sales still outstrip notebook sales in India, with sales of notebooks accounting for about 15 percent of all PC sales, MAIT said. Sales of unbranded desktops grew at 27 percent to capture a 40 percent share of the desktop market, despite aggressive price cuts by multinational and local brands. Intel, through its Genuine Intel Dealer (GID) program, has given some legitimacy to this otherwise unorganized sector, consisting to a significant extent of out-of-garage assembly operations. Vendors of unbranded PCs, besides having a strong presence in small towns, also offer lower prices and personalized support. Intel has been assisting some of these vendors to also get into the assembly of notebooks. Multinational PC brands accounted for 37 percent of the desktop market, registering growth of 14 percent. The share of Indian brands fell from 31 percent to 23 percent, after a decline in sales of 20 percent. Business buyers accounted for 77 percent of desktop sales during the period, with home users accounting for the remaining 23 percent. Buyers of notebook computers for home use also increased because of their reduced prices, and accounted for one-third of notebook sales, MAIT said.
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Pay as you go AIB's IT financing wing has said companies are choosing leasing over buying computer equipment in order to rein in their budgets.â¦