Research firm Gartner said Wednesday, the second quarter of the global personal computer (PC) shipments were down 10.9% for the fifth consecutive decline, PC market as a result of the popularity of tablet PCs suffer greatly.
This is the longest in the history of the decline of the PC industry during the second quarter, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N: Quote) market share lost to Lenovo Group (0992.HK: Quote). Lenovo is now the world's leading PC manufacturers, market share of 16.7%.
Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said in a press release, "We are seeing the decline of the PC market shrinking and the PC is directly related to the number of users in the mature developed markets, cheap tablet computer is mainly used for consumption instead of low-end PC."
Also on Wednesday, research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) announced that PC shipments in the second quarter, down 11.4%, slightly better than expected.
"As close to the expected performance of the second quarter, we still expect some improvement in the second half of this year," IDC analyst Jay Chou said in a report in.
Gartner said PC makers second quarter shipments of 76 million units a year earlier to 85.3 million units.
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