Friday, January 17, 2003
Hewlett-Packard regained its position as the world's largest PC maker in the fourth quarter, while the industry overall saw shipments increase in the quarter and in 2002 as a whole.
PC shipments increased by 4 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter compared with the same period last year while shipments for the entire year were up 1.5 percent from the year before.
In the United States, computer shipments were up 6.6 percent for the fourth quarter and 3.9 percent for the year, primarily because of consumer buying. Overall, 136 million desktops, notebooks and servers containing Intel or AMD chips left factory gates worldwide in 2002.
Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, took back the unit shipment lead from Dell Computer by shipping 120,000 more computers than Dell in the fourth quarter. HP's surge largely came as the result of strong consumer sales and aggressive price cutting, said Jim McDonnell, vice president of marketing in the personal systems group at HP. The fourth quarter is traditionally a more consumer-oriented quarter.
In the second quarter, HP became the largest PC maker for the first time, through its merger with Compaq Computer. Dell then snatched the lead from HP in the third quarter by a hair.
Still, the HP-Dell battle for dominance will go on as HP continues to shrink and Dell continues to grow. In the fourth quarter, HP saw its worldwide shipments contract by 9.8 percent and its market share decline from 18.5 percent to 16.1 percent. Meanwhile, Dell's market shipments rose 24.2 percent and its market share increased from 13.2 percent to 15.7 percent.
By: Docmemory
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