Dataquest Reports Worldwide PC Market Thrived In 1996 With 18 Percent Growth; Compaq Is Still the Market Leader, But IBM, HP, and Dell Pick Up the Pace.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--The personal computer industry continues to succeed with worldwide shipments reaching 70.9 million units in 1996, up 17.8 percent from 1995, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dataquest. While the market is still showing positive growth, the PC industry did suffer from declining growth in the consumer market. "While some vendors suffered from slowing PC home sales, others such as Compaq, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Gateway 2000 excelled," said Scott Miller Scott Miller may refer to:
Hewlett-Packard showed the largest growth among the top 5 PC vendors worldwide with unit shipments in 1996 increasing 51.8 percent over 1995 (see Table 1). Dataquest analysts report that Hewlett-Packard had at least 30 percent growth in every region of the world. -0-
Table 1
Preliminary Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 1996
(Thousands of Units)
1995 1995 Market 1996 1996 Market 1995-1996
Company Shipments Share (%) Shipments Share (%) Growth (%)
Compaq 6,016 10.0 7,128 10.1 18.5
IBM 4,761 7.9 6,090 8.6 27.9
Packard
Bell NEC 4,555 7.6 4,330 6.1 -4.9
Apple 4,735 7.9 3,696 5.2 -21.9
Hewlett-Packard 1,920 3.2 2,914 4.1 51.8
Others 38,185 63.5 46,703 65.9 22.3
Total 60,171 100.0 70,861 100.0 17.8
Source: Dataquest (January 1997)
"In the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Compaq continues to grow and maintain its leadership position for the third consecutive year; however, IBM has clearly returned as a market challenger with its third outstanding quarter," said Bill Schaub, Dataquest's computer group director. "1997 will develop as a test for Compaq, Dell, and IBM as they vie for market dominance Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings. There is often a geographic element to the competitive landscape. in the commercial desktop arena." Compaq gained an additional 1.1 percent in market share, while No. 2 vendor Packard Bell NEC (Packard Bell, The Netherlands, www.packardbell.com) A major PC manufacturer that is the consumer brand of NEC Computers International and the home computing market leader in the U.K. and much of Western Europe. lost 3.5 percent market share in 1996 (see Table 2). The big winner in the U.S. market was Dell Computer, which grew 71 percent in 1996 and gained 2.3 percent market share. -0-
Table 2
Preliminary U.S. PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 1996
(Thousands of Units)
1995 1995 Market 1996 1996 Market 1995-1996
Company Shipments Share (%) Shipments Share (%) Growth (%)
Compaq 2,756 12.2 3,403 13.3 23.5
Packard
Bell NEC 3,421 15.1 2,974 11.6 -13.1
IBM 1,857 8.2 2,226 8.7 19.9
Dell 1,034 4.6 1,769 6.9 71.0
Apple 2,502 11.1 1,730 6.7 -30.9
Others 11,013 48.8 13,546 52.8 23.0
Total 22,583 100.0 25,648 100.0 13.6
Source: Dataquest (January 1997)
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