The Top 10 Hardware Vendors

Positioning, Performance and SWOT Analyses

Publication Date	March 2008
Publisher	Business Insights
Product Type	Report
Pages	164
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	RBI00207

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Summary

Key findings from this report...

The top 10 hardware vendors control a third of the hardware market with a 32% market share.
HP leads the global industry with a 5.6% market share, followed by Nokia and Dell, each with 3.9% sha re.
Toshiba hardware revenues increased at a CAGR of 8% from 2005 to 2007, mainly driven by strong growth in the digital product segment and electronic devices segment.
Intel plans to increase its output and help to optimize ASPs using its new 'tick-tock' product development strategy.
Motorola has strong R&D capabilities, with about 41% of its total employees engaged in research activities.
The global hardware market will grow at a CAGR of 5% reaching $1,684bn by 2011

The Top 10 Hardware Vendors

Positioning, performance and SWOT analyses
The global hardware market grew by 4.9% to reach $1.32bn in 2006. The top 10 hardware vendors have a market share of 32%, driven by a strong focus on R&D and innovation. However, the rapid evolution of technologies, shorter product lifecycles and the establishment of both new markets and manufacturers in developing economies will serve to make the hardware market much more competitive in the future. The Top 10 Hardware Vendors: Positioning, performance and SWOT analyses is a new report published by Business Insights that examines market dynamics in the hardware market focusing on the top 10 vendors. This new report provides SWOT analyses of top 10 companies and assesses their market positioning, financial performance and growth strategies. Assess the world's leading hardware vendors, anticipate future trends and enhance your competitive strategies with this new report.

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Create more effective competitive strategies based on the financial and SWOT analyses of the top 10 hardware vendors detailed in this report.
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Understand the key trends in the hardware market and the impact that they are expected to have on the market using this report including emerging markets, commoditization, private label brands, price competition and PC market maturity.

Content

Executive summary
- Market development
- HP
- Nokia
- Dell
- NEC
- Motorola
- Fujitsu
- Toshiba
- Intel
- Cisco
- IBM
Chapter 1 Introduction
- What is this report about?
- Methodology
Chapter 2 Market context
- Summary
Overview
- Market definition
- Market size and growth
- Key trends in the hardware vendor market
- Growth driven by emerging countries
- Limited growth in the PC market
- Commoditization
Chapter 3 HP
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Leading market position
- High quality printer business
- Weaknesses
- Low profitability by the PSG segment
- Opportunities
- IT initiatives
- Leveraging the opportunities in imaging and printing
- Threats
- Emerging Chinese PC manufacturers
Chapter 4 Nokia
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Chipset strategy
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong market position in the mobile devices market
- Consistent operating performance
- Strong presence in emerging markets
- Weaknesses
- Weak presence in the US
- Opportunities
- Replacement market in emerging markets
- Nokia Siemens Networks
- Threats
- Product recall
- Litigation
Chapter 5 Dell
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Innovation
- IT simplification
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong market position in the US PC market
- Weaknesses
- Decline in profitability
- Weak internal controls
- Opportunities
- Retail partnership
- Opportunities in BRIC countries
- Threats
- Potential inability to facilitate financing for customers
Chapter 6 NEC
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Global expansion
- Next generation networks (NGNs) strategy
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong position in the domestic market
- Significant alliances
- Weaknesses
- Declining operational efficiency
- Opportunities
- Growing demand for LCD monitors
- Growing demand for mobile phones
- Threats
- Economic downturn in the key market
- Price competition
Chapter 7 Motorola
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Innovation
- Geographic expansion
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong focus on R&D activities
- Robust manufacturing capabilities
- Weaknesses
- Sluggish performance by Networks and Enterprise segment
- Decline in mobile phone market share
- Opportunities
- Growing demand for IPTV
- Threats
- Government regulations
Chapter 8 Fujitsu
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Realignment of LSI business
- Expansion of overseas business
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong R&D capabilities
- Weaknesses
- Weak returns
- Opportunities
- Expanding global business capabilities
- Growing storage and peripherals markets
- Threats
- Sluggish growth in the domestic market
Chapter 9 Toshiba
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Digital products business
- Electronic devices business
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Presence in key hardware segments
- Weaknesses
- Highly leveraged
- Opportunities
- Collaboration with Ikegami Tsushinki
- Threats
- Withdrawal of HD-DVD from the market
Chapter 10 Intel
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- Product development (tick-tock product strategy)
- Cost cutting and restructuring
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Leading position in microprocessor market
- Strong technological capabilities
- Weaknesses
- Decline in profitability
- Customer concentration
- Opportunities
- Growth in semiconductor market
- Threats
- Litigation
Chapter 11 Cisco
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- M&A activities
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong financial performance
- Geographic reach
- Weaknesses
- Over dependence on suppliers
- Opportunities
- Growing internet users
- Threats
- Intense price competition
- Consolidation in the US telecommunication industry
Chapter 12 IBM
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Growth strategies
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong position in server market
- Weaknesses
- Weak performance as compared to peers
- Opportunities
- Growing demand for Blades
- Threats
- Shift towards low-end servers
Chapter 13 11-20 companies
- Ericsson
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Apple
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Texas Instruments
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Sun Microsystems
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Nortel Networks
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Acer
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- EMC
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- STMicroelectronics
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
- Seagate Technology
- Company description
- Recent financial performance
List of Figures
- Figure 2.1: Global hardware market size ($bn), 2002-2006
- Figure 2.2: Market share of top 10 hardware companies, 2006
- Figure 3.3: HP hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 3.4: HP SWOT analysis
- Figure 4.5: Nokia financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Figure 4.6: Nokia SWOT analysis
- Figure 5.7: Dell hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 5.8: Dell SWOT analysis
- Figure 6.9: NEC financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 6.10: NEC SWOT analysis
- Figure 7.11: Motorola financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Figure 7.12: Motorola SWOT analysis
- Figure 8.13: Fujitsu financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 8.14: Fujitsu SWOT analysis
- Figure 9.15: Toshiba hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 9.16: Toshiba SWOT analysis
- Figure 10.17: Intel financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Figure 10.18: Intel SWOT analysis
- Figure 11.19: Cisco hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Figure 11.20: Cisco SWOT analysis
- Figure 12.21: IBM SWOT analysis
List of Tables
- Table 2.1: Top ten hardware company turnover ($m), growth & profitability, 2004-2006
- Table 2.2: The global hardware market ($bn), 2006
- Table 2.3: Top ten company presence across hardware segments
- Table 2.4: Worldwide PC vendor unit shipments (m), 2007
- Table 3.5: HP key milestones
- Table 3.6: HP hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 3.7: HP hardware business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 4.8: Nokia key milestones
- Table 4.9: Nokia financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 4.10: Nokia business segment performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 4.11: Nokia geographical segment performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 5.12: Dell key milestones
- Table 5.13: Dell hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 5.14: Dell hardware business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 6.15: NEC key milestones
- Table 6.16: NEC financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 6.17: NEC business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 6.18: NEC geographical performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 7.19: Motorola key milestones
- Table 7.20: Motorola financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 7.21: Motorola business segment performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 7.22: Motorola geographical performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 8.23: Fujitsu key milestones
- Table 8.24: Fujitsu financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 8.25: Fujitsu business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 8.26: Fujitsu geographical performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 9.27: Toshiba key milestones
- Table 9.28: Toshiba hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 9.29: Toshiba hardware business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 10.30: Intel key milestones
- Table 10.31: Intel financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 10.32: Intel business segment performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 10.33: Intel geographical performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 11.34: Cisco key milestones
- Table 11.35: Cisco hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 11.36: Cisco hardware business segment performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 11.37: Cisco hardware geographical performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 12.38: IBM key milestones
- Table 12.39: IBM hardware financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.40: Ericsson snapshot
- Table 13.41: Ericsson hardware financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.42: Apple snapshot
- Table 13.43: Apple hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 13.44: Texas Instruments snapshot
- Table 13.45: Texas Instruments financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.46: Alcatel-Lucent snapshot
- Table 13.47: Alcatel-Lucent hardware financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.48: Sun Microsystems snapshot
- Table 13.49: Sun Microsystems hardware financial performance ($m), 2005-2007
- Table 13.50: Nortel Networks snapshot
- Table 13.51: Nortel Networks financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.52: Acer snapshot
- Table 13.53: Acer financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.54: EMC snapshot
- Table 13.55: EMC hardware financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.56: STMicroelectronics snapshot
- Table 13.57: STMicroelectronics hardware financial performance ($m), 2004-2006
- Table 13.58: Seagate snapshot
- Table 13.59: Seagate financial performance ($m), 2005-2007