India IT hardware market 2014-15: Smartphone, phablet and server grew up, PC down

MAIT announced the latest findings of its Annual Industry Performance Review for the financial year 2014-15. The total size of Indian ICT Hardware Market is $15.87 billion, showing a growth of 23.98% over the previous year. This segment includes PCs, Desktops, Phablets (Screen size 5 inch and more), tablets (screen size greater than or equal to 7 inch), smartphones, servers, and peripherals. However, the total PC sales (desktop computers and notebooks) stood at 10.62 million (106.2 lakh) units, registering negative growth of 10 per cent over the last fiscal. Commenting on the findings, Amar Babu, President of MAIT, said, “Phones are driving all the growth but PC is showing degrowth. The only way to arrest this degrowth is to look at ways to increase PC penetration in Indian households. One way is by enabling infrastructure, providing low-cost loans and discount vouchers for purchasing PCs. We also see a ray of hope for PC growth in future on account of some of Digital India initiatives which aims at having a digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, governance & services on demand, and digital empowerment of citizens.” Phablets made a huge growth of 527% over last year to do 50.8 million sales and is expected to grow by around 65% in the next fiscal year. They are seeing fast emerging and information consumption, especially in the larger cities. Mul...