MAIT, the apex body representing India’s IT hardware,
training and R&D services sectors, announced the findings of
its Industry Performance Review for the financial year 2009 - 2010.
The total PC sales between April 2009 and March 2010—with
desktop computers, notebooks and netbooks taken together—were
8.03 million (80.3 lakh) units, registering a growth of 18 percent
over the last fiscal.
Some salient findings of the 2009 - 2010 study are given
below:
The Notebook Market
Netbook sales crossed the 1 lakh unit mark for the first time,
during the second-half of the year 2009 - 2010 (H2 2009 - 2010) and
registered an impressive growth of 66 percent over the same period
last year. The Netbook sales were largely driven by the Household
segment which accounted for almost 3/4th of the total netbook sales
during 2009 - 2010.
On a favorable note, notebooks are no longer restricted to the
high-income SEC A segment, which used to be the traditional segment
for these devices. Notebooks have started making rapid inroads into
the lower SECs as well.
The Desktop Market
Businesses accounted for 58 percent of the desktop sales with an
eight percent decline in consumption. The decline was on account of
very sluggish sales during the first-half of the fiscal. However,
Desktop sales among business recovered to some extent during the
second half of the year 2009 - 2010 (H2 2009 - 2010) with a growth
of six percent over the same period last year.
Households contribution to the Desktop market increased to 42
percent of the total desktop market during 2009 - 2010 from about a
34 percent during the previous year. With this, households also
registered a growth of 30 percent during 2009 - 2010 over the
previous year.
The Servers Market
During the year 2009 - 2010, sales of servers registered a decline
of 15 percent over the last financial year. This decline was
largely on account of the poor sales during the first-half of the
fiscal. During the second-half however, server sales registered a
growth of 14 percent over the same period last fiscal.
The Peripherals Market
Overall printer sales grew by six percent during 2009 - 2010 over
the last fiscal to reach 1.72 million (17.2 lakh) units.
The Internet Entities
The number of active Internet entities crossed the 10 million mark
in March 2010. The overall Internet entities increased to
10.06 million (106 lakh) units in March 2010, a growth of 17
percent over March 2009.
Internet penetration in the 17 cities was 53 percent among
businesses and 21 percent among households. The business segment
now accounts for 26 percent of India’s total active Internet
entities and households account for the remaining 74
percent.