After a long decline in PC sales, the market seems to be slowly growing again. According to Gartner and IDC it has a lot to do with the move from Windows 7 towards Windows 10 with its support ending, as well as Intel being able to keep up better with demand of processors.
Mostly businesses are been migrating PCs to Windows 10 due to the impending end of support for Windows 7. Interestingly the growth is to be found in desktops, not laptops. The growth was 1.5 percent according to Gartner, IDC keeps it at 4.7 percent, which kind off is a rather big difference?
“Worldwide PC shipments growth was driven by demand from the Windows 10 refresh in the business market in the second quarter of 2019. Desktop PC growth was strong, which offset a decline in mobile PC shipments,” said Mikako Kitagawa, senior principal analyst at Gartner.
“Additionally, there are signs that the Intel CPU shortage is easing, which has been an ongoing impact to the market for the past 18 months. The shortage mainly impacted small and midsize vendors as large vendors took advantage and continued to grow, taking market share away from the smaller vendors that struggled to secure CPUs.”
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2Q19 Shipments |
2Q19 Market Share (%) |
2Q18 Shipments |
2Q18 Market Share (%) |
2Q19-2Q18 Growth (%) |
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Lenovo |
15,774 |
25.0 |
13,608 |
21.9 |
15.9 |
|
HP Inc. |
13,992 |
22.2 |
13,636 |
22.0 |
2.6 |
|
Dell |
10,654 |
16.9 |
10,435 |
16.8 |
2.1 |
|
Apple |
3,711 |
5.9 |
3,720 |
6.0 |
-0.2 |
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Acer Group |
3,395 |
5.4 |
3,968 |
6.4 |
-14.4 |
|
ASUS |
3,100 |
4.9 |
3,442 |
5.5 |
-9.9 |
|
Others |
12,347 |
19.6 |
13,231 |
21.3 |
-6.7 |
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Total |
62,974 |
100.0 |
62,040 |
100.0 |
1.5 |
* gartner
The ongoing trade dispute — and potential imposition of tariffs — adds uncertainty to the near-term outlook for PC demand.
“While the U.S.-China trade war did not impact the PC market in the second quarter of 2019, the next phase of tariffs could have significant impact. Most laptops and tablets are currently manufactured in China and sales of these devices in the U.S. could face significant price increases if the punitive tariffs are imposed and vendors do not take quick action to respond,” said Ms. Kitagawa.
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Top Companies, Worldwide Traditional PC Shipments, Market Share and Year-Over-Year Growth, Second Quarter 2019 (Preliminary results, shipments are in thousands of units) |
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Company |
2Q19 Shipments |
2Q19 Market Share |
2Q18 Shipments |
2Q18 Market Share |
2Q19/2Q18 Growth |
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1. Lenovo |
16,254 |
25.1% |
13,750 |
22.2% |
18.2% |
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2. HP |
15,356 |
23.7% |
14,880 |
24.0% |
3.2% |
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3. Dell Technologies |
11,606 |
17.9% |
11,255 |
18.2% |
3.1% |
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4. Acer Group |
4,288 |
6.6% |
4,363 |
7.0% |
-1.7% |
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5. Apple |
4,077 |
6.3% |
3,722 |
6.0% |
9.6% |
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Others |
13,276 |
20.5% |
13,961 |
22.5% |
-4.9% |
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Total |
64,858 |
100.0% |
61,931 |
100.0% |
4.7% |
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Source: IDC Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, July 11, 2019 |
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* IDC
PC market growing again the past few months
