HP back to Old Road founder doesn't like PC business

Source: Internet
Author: User
Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 19 afternoon, with HP stripped PC business, Hewlett-Packard CEO Li Ai (Leo apotheker) gave up a HP founder did not like the business. In the early 90, HP's co-founder David Packard was reluctant to focus on PCs.  Walter Hewlet, the son of Hewlett, another founder of Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett, the HP board member Walter Hulit, had tried to stop Hewlett-Packard from acquiring Compaq computers in 2002, but had not succeeded in making HP the world's largest PC maker. Michael Cusumano, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said that HP's founders had intended to invent unique products and tools for engineers at the start of HP's 1939, and they were not Michael Cossomaro to become the world's largest provider of commercial products.  The decline in HP's PC profits as a result of competition from Asian rivals has led to a return to the early ideas of HP's founders. PC revenue accounted for 30% of HP's total revenue in the previous quarter, but only 5.9% of its operating rate was lower than any other HP department. (Xiao Ming)

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