HP
HP Inc. makes personal computers, printers and the supplies and services that go with them, and owns the HyperX gaming and Poly meeting-room brands. Founded in 1939 and based in Palo Alto, California.
About HP
HP began in 1939 in a rented garage in Palo Alto, where William Hewlett and David Packard built audio oscillators and sold the first of them to Walt Disney Studios. The partnership was incorporated in California in 1947, and the garage is now a state landmark. It is a founding story that has been retold a great deal, but the useful part of it is what the company still does: build the machines other people do their work on. The company as it stands today dates from 1 November 2015, when Hewlett-Packard separated into two. HP Inc. kept the personal computers and the printing business. Hewlett Packard Enterprise took the servers, the storage and the enterprise services. They are separate public companies and have been ever since, which is worth knowing before searching for either. On the computer side, the consumer and premium laptops now all sit under one name, OmniBook, which replaced the Pavilion, ENVY and Spectre lines. For work there are the EliteBook and ProBook notebooks and the Elite desktops, and above them the Z workstations, which is where the engineering and creative work that needs more machine than a laptop can hold tends to end up. Printing is the other half of the business and the older one. LaserJet, OfficeJet and DeskJet cover the office and the home, Smart Tank ships with ink or toner in the box rather than in a cartridge, and Instant Ink posts replacements before you run out. At the industrial end, DesignJet and PageWide XL handle drawings and posters, Latex prints signage and vehicle graphics, and Indigo presses do commercial print runs that would once have needed a plate. HP also owns two brands that keep their own names. HyperX is the gaming side, and since January 2026 it is the only one: OMEN, HP's gaming line, was folded into HyperX so that the laptops, desktops, monitors, headsets and keyboards all carry one badge. Poly, which was Plantronics and Polycom before HP acquired it in 2022, makes the headsets, video bars and software that meeting rooms and contact centres run on. Running underneath all of it is HP Wolf Security, a set of protections built into the hardware and firmware of HP's business machines rather than installed on top of them. HP is headquartered at 1501 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, California.