Lenovo and HP still keep firm in Shipment at the Background of Worldwide PC Having Declined in Violent

The market of PC has suffered a great depression. In the first quarter this year, shipment of global PC has declined quite a lot. The main reason for that is that the effect of exchanging Windows XP is dying away, which is the consensus of both IDC and Gartner.

According to the prediction of Gartner, the shipment of global PC will decrease by 5.2% from the earlier year, reaching 71.7 million. And the top 5 of PC manufacturers are Lenovo, HP, Dell, Acer and Asus.

From the chart above, we can find that in the eyes of Gartner, Lenovo and HP are only two corporations which sustained its growth in shipment of PC. Meanwhile Dell had suffered a down turn during the last six quarters for the first time.

At the same time, the worldwide PC shipment of the first quarter in 2015 has declined by 6.7%, reaching 68.5 million. In the list of IDC, top 5 are as same as Gartner and the unique difference is that Acer ranks before Asus.

 

IDC also agrees with the data of Gartner. They think both Lenovo and HP had an increasing tendency. However, the shipment of Dell and Acer had fallen down. Though the shipment of Asus has increased than that of last quarter, it still ranks the fifth.

Actually the reason for worldwide PC shipment tendency is simple: the increasing shipment of global PC in 2014 is just an accidental boom. As Microsoft has called off supplying Windows XP for marketers, so they turn to bought new computers and upgraded them to Windows 7 or Windows 8 within a short period.

Although many a marketer adopt Windows XP, the trend of upgrading devices has weakened. For the next half year, analysts hold an optimistic attitude when compared with IDC.

The chief analyst of Gartner Mikako Kitgawa thinks that the tendency of downturn in the first quarter of 2015 doesn't mean the whole field will keep in a downturn period. Actually the shipment of laptops, comprehensive laptops and Windows tablets had increased in the first quarter of 2015. In the view of Gartner, the PC field will still keep a steady slow increase.