14 DAY TRIAL // While things may be more or less clear as far as the leading suppliers of consumer PCs are concerned, things seem to be a bit tighter in terms of competitiveness on the workstation segment.
As consumers probably know, HP is the leading supplier of personal computers worldwide, and has been for years already.
Now, it appears that the same company managed to hold onto the same post on the workstation market as well.
On the other hand, as far as systems go, HP was prominent in the third quarter, though the situation did not last because Dell became a bit more serious.
Basically, there was a sort of deadlock between the two companies, although HP did, in the end, succeed in overcoming its rival with a share of 40.5% over 37.5%.
“HP was decidedly back on top as workstation volume leader in Q3'10, mimicking the surge over Dell the company achieved back in the third quarter of 2009,” says the company's press release.
Jon Peddie Research reported a total of 849.7 thousand shipped workstations for the July-September period, which is a number 31.8% higher than the one in Q3, 2009.
HP looks more than ready to keep pushing forward as hard as it can in this field.
“It's clear HP is continuing to move aggressively forward in workstation business,” said the JPR press release.
“The question is not so much about where HP's fortunes are headed, but more whether Dell is willing — and the firm believes it's able, provided it's willing — to keep up.”
The other company that benefited most from the growth shown by this market was NVIDIA, whose Quadro series of professional graphics cards seem to have sold quite well.
Still, as far as the professional graphics hardware area goes, during Q3, 2010, there was somewhat of a slowdown, yielding 1.14 million units, which was 9.5% slower sequentially.