HP celebrates 40 years in Mexico; commitment to more innovation

For his part, Pablo Lemus, municipal president of Guadalajara, celebrated the presence of the company in the state, with whom they have worked for several six-year terms. “HP helped put the name of Guadalajara in the world. It put us on the map not only as a city name, but also the quality of our people’s workforce became known, thanks to this trust, many other companies decided to be in the city to be what is now known as the Mexican Silicon Valley”.

According to the index of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), Jalisco is the most outstanding state in the generation of state-of-the-art technology in the country in 2022.

HP chose Jalisco to portray its history

Originally, Hewlett Packard was founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard, colleagues at Stanford University, in a garage they developed a first audio oscillator, the company chose Palo, Alto California as its headquarters, but little by little it began to expand all over the world.

It arrived in Mexico in 1982, when it was still a company focused on the manufacture of calculators. But in 2015, he decided to separate the businesses that became Hewlett Packard Enterprise, focused on technology solutions for companies, and HP Inc, dedicated to printers and personal computers.

According to Flor López, director of HP in Guadalajara, the challenges ahead for the company are to remain a center of innovation that manages to export patents and more technology to the whole world.