http://www.nbcnews.com/business/global-pc-market-shrank-11-percent-second-quarter-6C10596899
Global shipments of personal computers slumped 10.9 percent in the
second quarter, the fifth straight quarterly decline in a market that
has been devastated by the popularity of tablets, research firm Gartner
said on Wednesday.
Marking the longest decline in the PC
industry's history, Hewlett-Packard in the June quarter lost ground to
Lenovo, now the world's leading personal computer maker with a market
share of 16.7 percent.
"We are seeing the PC market reduction
directly tied to the shrinking installed base of PCs, as inexpensive
tablets displace the low-end machines used primarily for consumption in
mature and developed markets," Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said in a
news release.
Also on Wednesday, research firm IDC said PC shipments dropped 11.4 percent in the second quarter, a bit better than expected.
"With
second-quarter growth so close to forecast, we are still looking for
some improvement in growth during the second half of the year," analyst
Jay Chou said in IDC's report.
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