The impact of global recession on the computer hardware companies is left behind and they are back on the progress track. It seems that the forecasts that were made before recession are going to turn true. Different segments of the computer hardware industry are growing with improvement in their design and functionality and rise in their demand.
Not only the big computer hardware manufacturers, but the small and medium sized enterprises too are making big contributions towards the industry growth at a global level. Below you can find few sections that analyze the growth of computer hardware industry segments in different countries.
Before that, here is a list of the main segments of the computer hardware industry:
Finished goods like computers and laptops.
Networking hardware consisting of routers, modems, network cards, network adapters, hubs and switches and other components.
Storage hardware ranging from the hard disks to the USB storage devices.
Input and output peripherals like keyboard, mouse, scanners, video cards, speakers, headphones, game controllers and so on.
System hardware consisting of motherboards, UPS, monitors and other components.
Personal Computer Market
In 2008, the global PC market generated the revenue of 3.7 billion that represented the compound annual growth rate of 8 percent from 2004 to 2008. The PC market in China had total worth of .8 billion in 2008 representing the total compound annual growth rate of over 14 percent. The United States PC market generated .6 billion in 2008 showing 3.8 percent compound annual growth rate.
An impressive growth of 42 percent was shown by the PC sales between October and December 2009 in the Indian market. The 52 percent of the desktops sold were contributed by the multinational computer hardware companies and 13 percent by the Indian computer hardware manufacturers. The remaining 35 percent consisted of assembled desktops.