PC market collapses.

So far, the market for high-tech, and entertainment of the economic crisis largely to defy. Now clear that the crisis with a slight delay here durchschlägt: The PC market had in the first quarter of 2009, more than expected loser.

 

Stamford - The worldwide PC market in the first quarter of 2009 caved. The paragraph was compared to the same period last year by 6.5 percent to 67.2 million devices worldwide has declined, reported the market research firm Gartner on Thursday in Stamford (U.S. state of Connecticut) on the basis of preliminary figures.

For a market that for years knew nothing other than constant and steep rise, the lot. It is called the EMEA region, in addition to Europe, the Middle East and Africa includes disproportionately affected. Here, sales fell by 10.2 percent. With the exception of the Netbook, all the low segments of the decline affected. Remains the leading U.S. manufacturer Hewlett-Packard.

The demand was dwindling, according to Gartner, both the consumer and the business segment. The only bright spot was the Netbook which are already in the previous months had driven the market. "Cheap mobile PC will remain in most regions of the growth drivers," said Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa. However, when these devices a significant decrease in revenues to be expected because the average selling sänken.

Greater choice

This is true only for the Netbook with Intel and Microsoft-defined standard configuration. Within these industry giants are trying prescribed technical specifications, manufacturers, Netbook, exceeding unusual design or additional interfaces for specialized market niches, and to higher prices. In addition, increases in the number of Netbook-related products from Nettops for working or living on All-in-ones to more exotic solutions such as the EEEPC keyboard in which the computer from a wireless keyboard is the LCD TV as monitor uses. The industry has responded so with a genuine creativity Shear, the new types of devices produces, to the crisis.

Whether the downward trend continues, it is also from the perspective of market researchers are still not say that. "It is still unclear whether the global PC market has bottomed out," said Gartner analyst George Shiffler. There is some evidence indicates that the company primarily in the U.S. stocks increase it again, this could still not be rated as a recreation.

Hewlett-Packard has its advantage as a market expanded. According to Gartner, every fifth came from the U.S. computer manufacturers (19.8 percent market share). Dell continues to lose ground and split at around 13 percent market share in second place with Acer. While the U.S. company under the weakness of its home market suffered, benefited from the boom of the Taiwanese mini-notebook. The PC market saw six years in a row high, often double-digit growth rates, but stagnated in the last quarter of 2008.