What does HP do:
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a provider of wide variety of hardware and software services in computers and printers to individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including government, health and education sectors.- HP Founder(s): Bill Hewlett and David Packard
- HP founded year: January 01, 1939
- Company Name: Hewlett-Packard, HP inc.
- HP Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Number of HP employees: 56,000 (as of 2019)
- HP annual revenue: $56.8 Billion
- HP net earnings: $3.152 Billion (as of 2019)
- Top 5 products similar to HP: Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and Epson
- HP Product ranges: Printers, Software, cloud products, Digital camera, Scanner, Computer products (Tablet, Pocket computer, Desktop, notebooks), mobile phone, servers.
- Number of Hewlett-Packard patents: 37,000 worldwide patents
- HP acquisitions: 104 organizations have been acquired by HP and its latest acquisition was Bromium, Inc. in September 2019
- Interesting fact about HP: Most of the HP products are recycled from waste plastics. They are currently focused on ocean plastics and they sourced more than 1.7M pounds of ocean-bound plastic material as of June 2020.
- History of HP: Bill Hewlett and David Packard started their research in a garage nearby Palo Alto and developed an audio oscillator Model 200A and it was purchased by Walt Disney. The company name was finalized with a coin toss whether it should call as Hewlett-Packard (HP) or Packard-Hewlett. The garage they worked earlier is now called as “Birthplace of Silicon Valley”.
+ One interesting news:Scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell.
PS: All facts updated on October 19, 2020
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