Abandoning Mobile Devices To Split PC&Nbsp; HP Quit Consumer Business

According to foreign media reports, HP CEO Li Aike (Leo Apotheker) announced its restructuring plan on Thursday.

The plan can be roughly divided into three parts: 1) HP The tablet and smart phone business will be terminated during the quarter. 2) HP will split or sell its PC business unit. By the end of next year, HP computer products will probably be sold in the name of another company. 3) HP plans to spend $10 billion to acquire Autonomy, a commercial software developer, which will also be one of the largest purchases since HP was founded.

The industry pointed out that the short board of HP's consumer business in the past few years is the lack of mobile devices with strong market influence. Although HP acquired smartphone maker Palm last year and obtained Palm's webOS mobile operating system, it failed to make a difference in the field of smart phone and tablet business. HP said on Thursday that it would no longer engage in the subsequent development of webOS software.

As far as PC business is concerned, HP is also aware of the need for business transformation. During the term of Carly Fiorina Fiorina (CEO Carly), she tried to make a public discussion, so that HP bought $24 billion for Compaq (Carly). Computer Company. It was through this transaction that HP finally became the world's largest PC manufacturer.

At present, HP's main revenue source is PC business. However, due to the overall decline in the price of PC and the intensification of market competition, the profit margin of PC business in HP's business is also the lowest. Analysts said that although the PC business contributed about 15% of HP's revenue, the business has become a drag on HP's share price rise.

The business restructuring plan announced by HP on Thursday is actually following the decision made by IBM many years ago. In 1980s, IBM played a leading role in the PC market. In 2005, IBM sold its PC business to focus on software development and related services. And HP plans to buy Autonomy, in fact, also hopes to follow the example of IBM, in order to do a good job in software development and services.

With revenue as the standard, HP is the largest in the world. science and technology Company. After completing the above restructuring plan, HP will continue to sell servers and other devices for enterprise users. Although HP's business revenue is not PC business, its profit margin is even higher. It is not yet known how many employees HP will cut, the company currently employs more than 300 thousand people worldwide.

HP's business restructuring plan has not been approved by investors. When HP announced its restructuring on Thursday, shares fell $1.88, or 6%, to $29.51. In subsequent subsequent trading, its share price continued to fall by 2.90 US dollars, or 9.83%, to 26.61 US dollars.