The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 3.15 million units in the third quarter of 2011, a 13 per cent increase over the third quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.

"This growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market which grew 29 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2011," said Vishal Tripathi, principal research analyst at Gartner.

"A number of festivals helped drive demand in the consumer market in India. The third quarter was the best quarter in the history of the Indian PC industry as overall PC shipments crossed 3 million units for the first time. The consumer segment accounted for 55 per cent of PC shipments."

All the major multinational PC vendors experienced double-digit growth in PC shipments in the third quarter of 2011.

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1. Dell

Q3 market share in India: 15 per cent
Dell India CEO: Suresh Vaswani

Recently, Dell India celebrated the 10th anniversary of its India R&D centre in Bangalore. Maintaining a steady pace of growth, Dell India R&D center has taken ownership of products ranging from servers, storage, data centers, systems software, hardware design, validation and testing, new features enhancement and continuous optimisation and building its core competence for the global market.

This US-based company was started by Michael Dell in 1984. Today, it is one of the largest technological corporations in the world that employs over 103,300 people worldwide.

In India, Dell employs nearly 23,000 people in India, the largest employee base outside the US. Earlier in the year, the company announced its plans to hire a few thousands more people in a year or so.

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2. HP

Q3 market share in India: 13.3 per cent
Managing Director, HP India: Neelam Dhawan

Founded in 1939, HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and was started in a one-car garage by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.

HP's three business groups drive industry leadership in core technology areas: - the Personal Systems Group: business and consumer PCs, mobile computing devices and workstations, - the Imaging and Printing Group: inkjet, LaserJet and commercial printing, printing supplies, digital photography and entertainment, - the Technology Solutions Group: business products including storage and servers, EDS, managed services and software.

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3. Lenovo

Q3 market share in India: 12.1 per cent
Managing Director, Lenovo India: Amar Babu

Lenovo was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 under its previous name, Legend. Lenovo is the world's second largest PC maker and markets the ThinkPad line of notebook PCs and ThinkCentre line of desktops.

These brands became part of Lenovo's offerings after its 2005 acquisition of IBM's personal computer business.

Recently, Lenovo India launched three tablets for the fledgling Indian tablet market. While the mature markets are buying more of multitasking mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones on shrinking budgets, Lenovo continues to bet on the PC market worldwide. It recently became the number two PC maker globally.

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4. Acer

Q3 market share in India: 10.8 per cent
Managing Director, Acer India: Harish Kohli

Acer was founded by Stan Shih, his wife Carolyn Yeh and a group of five others as Multitech in 1976. It is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

It began with eleven employees and US$25,000 in capital. Initially, it was primarily a distributor of electronic parts and a consultant in the use of microprocessor technologies.

In the early 2000s Acer implemented a new business model, shifting from a manufacturer to a designer, marketer and distributor of products, while performing production processes via contract manufacturers.

All of Acer's products are now made by original equipment manufacturers in the People's Republic of China.

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5. HCL

Q3 market share in India: 5.6 per cent
CEO HCL India: Vineet Nayar

The $2 billion company accounted for 5.6 percent of PC shipments in the third quarter of 2011. It was the only vendor in top 5 to register a year-on-year decline in shipments in the third quarter.

Founded in 1976, is one of India's original IT garage start ups. It is a global technology and IT Enterprise company based in Noida, India. The company comprises of two publicly listed companies, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

The rest

The other PC makers together hold the rest of the 43.2 per cent market share in India.