Global PC boss HP or selling business Samsung Lenovo has the highest voice

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords The call of the company Hewlett-Packard
After a hasty dismissal of former Gold CEO Hurd, the world's biggest PC maker Hewlett-Packard's frantic move to abandon the PC business stunned the world: a broken wrist, a more than 40 billion steady cash flow each year, and half of the company's total business, people cannot help but ask,  What will HP do for a living in the short term? The world's largest PC manufacturers sell, who to take? The two largest PC manufacturers in Europe and the United States is very unlikely ——— Dell has been in the transition to software services, Apple is a self-contained system. and Asian PC makers are the loudest, and Samsung and Lenovo are the most willing to take over HP's PC business.  However, Samsung and Lenovo who to take the job, for Taiwan's OEM manufacturers, the fate is very different. Investors have questioned HP's decision, which has fallen by more than 20% per cent and evaporated by 16 billion dollars on the day, after the company announced its restructuring plan. Investors ' trust in their current C-E o ' AI is also plunging with share prices.  Indeed, since Apotheker's successor in November last year, the company's market capitalisation has shrunk by about 44%. Since Hurd left, HP is a frequent earthquake, great events. A symbol of the entire Silicon Valley, which has dominated the PC industry, it is now clear that it is ready to divest itself of the PC business. HP also plans to stop production of W EB O s equipment including touchpad. Since the advent of T Ouchpad, sales have been flat.  HP also announced plans to buy British software company A utonom y, the acquisition price of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars. "The PC business remains HP's main business, which accounted for half of the company's total business last year, and if it sells the business, where is the new growth?" Are you relying on this acquisition? HP needs to tell shareholders exactly where the future growth is.  "The Reuters investment bank expert was puzzled by HP's move," he said. From hardware manufacturers to the software industry transition, HP initiative is obvious. In the High-tech industry, everyone is willing to engage in a fast-growing software industry, rather than to do low profit growth in the hardware industry.  Now Hewlett-Packard buys a large software company to get rid of the PC business, and its message to the market is to accelerate the software transformation. Analysts said HP's decision seemed plausible in the long run, but it was worrying that it would take a long time to achieve and cost too much. One big worry is that the uncertainty surrounding the PC business will cause HP's corporate customers to turn to rivals such as Dell.  And even if software is a highly profitable business, investors are worried that Hewlett-Packard will buy British software company A utonom y for nearly 12 billion dollars too expensive. Samsung, Lenovo, the highest voice in the industry analysis, Hewlett-Packard PC department value of at least 25 billion to 30 billion U.S. dollars. Such a behemoth to sell, there are few enterprises have the power to take over. The industry's pre-contract, HP may be split way to deal with the consumer PC business first. As for buyers, the market judges South Korea's Samsung, China's Lenovo may be a handful of candidates. In addition, theChina's communications giant Huawei has also expressed a high degree of interest in docking. Samsung is a comprehensive manufacturer, not only in Flash, memory, LCD panels and other key parts of the industry is a leader, and in the PC machine, smartphone field has accumulated for many years. In addition, Samsung is also very powerful in software. If the purchase of HP PC business, Samsung can achieve the integration of the whole industry chain, so as to compete head-on with Apple.  More crucially, Samsung has the financial strength to take the HP. Lenovo after the acquisition of IBM, after years of digestion and integration, has been basically out of the shadow of the acquisition, the business has basically embarked on the right track. If the acquisition of HP P C business, Lenovo will certainly have a certain appeal.  But Lenovo now has cash in the hands of around 3.8 billion trillion dollars, even if the HP spin-off only sells the consumer PC business, Lenovo is also very difficult to take out tens of billions of dollars of money to buy, need to solve through financial financing. In addition to Samsung, Lenovo, Huawei has also expressed a high degree of interest in the HP PC department. It is understood that Huawei has been interested in acquiring European and American companies are very high, but because the United States in order to national security considerations, has always been barred from the door.  And if HP were to sell it as a spin-off of a consumer PC, it would reduce U.S. concerns, and the deal would be the amount that Huawei could afford. Taiwanese manufacturers in Taiwan have been hardest hit by the news of Hewlett-Packard's spin-off of its PC business.  It is reported that on the day of the news, Taiwan's "Economic minister" Shih has urgently asked the Institute of Research and Research Institute, and will invite Asus, Acer brand Factory and the British industry Tatsu and other related factories to discuss communication. It is understood that the current Taiwan o E m manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Computer products are mainly British industry Tatsu, Quanta, the supply of PC battery manufacturers are new PU and Shunda, supply chassis manufacturers are Berten, the supply of computer keyboard and PC B (printed circuit board) manufacturers are fine Wen ipacs.  In addition, HP has contributed to the revenue of Hon Hai, Hong Xing, Wei Chong, Cheng, Qun Guang, Ju Teng and sun Hing, Taiwan foundry manufacturers. Shih said that if the HP business was taken over by Lenovo or Huawei from the mainland, will not have much impact on the previous foundry business, because Lenovo is the original Taiwan manufacturers of many partners, if the company to participate in, will not change the current HP's foundry relationship; If the takeover is Samsung, the consequences will be serious, Because Samsung itself has a strong production capacity, once taken over, it will transfer a lot of business to their own factory production, thereby significantly reducing the Taiwanese OEM manufacturers orders.  The most direct impact of the components are panels, memory and batteries; for the foundry, the first is the British industry Tatsu, Hon Hai. In Hon Hai, for example, HP is a major customer of Hon Hai's laptop foundry business, and HP desktop orders are highly concentrated in Hon Hai. Hon Hai's chairman, Terry Gou, has made a high-profile killing of Samsung as a "rake" and has repeatedly declared anti-Korean.  If Samsung takes over HP's PC business, Mr Gou's stance is probably embarrassing. Focus PC supremacy battle HP disarm surrendered last week 41 home rowApple beat HP to become the market king of the PC industry in the second quarter of this year, according to a survey published by Industry research institutes. The report said that Apple's global sales of P C products in the second quarter of this year reached 13.6 million, with market share rising to 21.1%.  In the same period, HP products worldwide sales of 9.7 million units, the market share of 15%. In addition, HP has been defeated in terms of profitability. The industry estimates that Apple's profit margin may be 15%, while HP is less than half, only 6%, and there are signs of further declines.  The industry believes that Hewlett-Packard chose to abandon the PC business at this time, is tantamount to publicly admit Apple in the field of consumer electronics dominance. Nancy reporter Gao Lingyun intern Chaoqian
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