Growth would come from servers and storage, services, notebooks, printers and TVs — mostly in markets outside the US, he said.

Our revenue last year accounted for only about 4% of global spending on information-technology products and services, so we have tremendous room to grow, he said.

We are focusing on opportunities with a wide-angle lens. We continue to identify product and service categories where customers are paying too much for technology and services, even as we expand our capabilities in existing areas.

He stressed the company’s imaging and printing business as an area for potential growth.

For its fiscal 2005, Dell saw $49.2bn in revenues.

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell plans to open a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina in September. It also is increasing manufacturing capacity in China.