PC Shipments worldwide grew 1.5% - Gartner
Global research firm Gartner released its 2019 second-quarter PC market statistics.
Gartner stated that the worldwide PC market grew 1.5% in the second quarter of 2019, while Shipments totalled up to 63 million units in the second quarter of 2019, which is an increase from the 62 million units in the second quarter of 2018.
These sales statistics are based on desktop PCs, notebook PCs, and portable premium products, but not Chromebooks or iPads.
According to the research, the top-selling PC brand thus far is Lenovo due to strong year-over-year growth.
HP came in second-place and Dell in third due to PC market share, and these three brands account for 64.1% of all PC shipments globally.
Mikako Kitagawa, senior principal analyst at Gartner said in a statement: "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."
“These top three vendors continued to gain share in the PC market taking advantage of economies of scale,” Gartner said. “Intel’s CPU supply shortage in the first half of the year accelerated this trend.”
Lenovo saw impressive performance compared to the same period last year, with its shipments growing by double digits in all key regions except Latin America.
US-China trade war
According to Gartner, the U.S.-China trade war did not impact the PC market in the second quarter of 2019.
"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 a 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."
Written by: Gabriella Steyn.
Guzzle Media
