Market research firm IDC and Gartner statistics

Market research firm IDC and Gartner statistics show that the third quarter year-on-year worldwide PC shipments fell more than 8% since 2001, is one of the most serious landslide. And from IHS iSuppli is expected to report that the whole year's PC shipments will appear in the last 11 years, for the first time since the year-on-year drop. At the same time, according to statistics, from BI analysis in the third quarter, the global smartphone shipments to PC shipments 2 times, the distance to the end of 2010 smartphone shipments more than the first PC is less than 2 years. All the signs are that, the traditional PC industry already in recession. As the rest of the traditional PC market HP, lenovo and dell are to the transformation of the road.

Look at the global PC market boss hewlett packard, before Palm through mergers and acquisitions and series of enterprise-level company expect in mobile Internet (smart phones and tablet PC) and class business a breakthrough. Unfortunately, after the market in fact, hewlett-packard this strategy is not successful. Such as mergers and acquisitions of WebOS ecosystem final open source, and big before merger EDS and Autonomy, and other enterprises large write-downs. Can say so far, HP to the failed to show a clear strategic transformation. It is also based on this, the board of directors shall release HP before I even fired the CEO Whitman's hearsay.

Lenovo as the current global PC market second, the PC + strategic demand outside PC market growth in the field of mobile Internet. So far, lenovo has scored in Chinese intelligent mobile phones and tablet PC market, but due to the second into new areas, lenovo pay the price is the enterprise overall gross profit rate is low, profitable enterprise the lack of business, this will be the future growth of one of the biggest challenges facing.

Compared with HP and lenovo, as early as in 2007 dell launched its transformation strategy, in order to let dell is no longer a traditional PC company, but through a profound change make oneself become a "end to end" IT whole solution provider.