PCs in Asia-Pacific on massive growth path
PCs in Asia-Pacific on massive growth path
Apr 27, 2005: Despite the Australian PC market reaching saturation point, the adoption of PCs in Asia Pacific is expected to grow 20 percent annually until 2010, according to a new Forrester Report that has revealed that there is expected to be 559 million PCs throughout Asia-Pacific by the end of the decade.
The "Sizing Asia-Pacific PC Adoption Through 2010" report states that in 2004, there were 161 million PCs in 20 Asia-Pacific countries, which is expected to triple by the end of the decade.
However, PCs growth is expected to saturate in Australia and New Zealand, because PC adoption is already high, with 50 PCs in use for every 100 citizens. The report points out that growth in these two countries, and other markets, such as Europe and the U.S., will enter a period of replacement-driven growth.
Rates in these mature markets are expected to be between four and seven percent annually until 2010, when it is expected to slow down as it reaches saturation point.
The adoption of smartphones and small computing devices could drive down the overall purchase of traditional PC products.
In terms of the Asia Pacific, 20 countries are represented in the report, accounting for 3.4 billion people, which is about 55 percent of the world's population.
In addition to these findings, the report discovered that Hong Kong's PC adoption is much lower than expected, Japan will see the most new PCs in use outside of China, Singapore has the highest PC adoption in the region and South Korea's PC adoption is on the decline.
Taiwan's PC adoption is also expected to rise from 9 million to 16.5 million by 2010. The report's author, senior analyst Simon Yates, Asia-Pacific said that NEC could end up selling its PC division to HP; Fujitsu could eventually buy Founder Technologies; and he could see Acer buying India-based HCL, which he predicts would "vault Acer into a leadership position and provide an in-road into the rapidly growing Indian market for IT infrastructure."
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