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Top five PC rankings

China’s Lenovo jumped one rank to become the world’s second-largest PC brand, surpassing Dell Inc. in Q3, according to analysis by IHS. Hewlett-Packard still leads the pack.

Lenovo’s global PC shipments in the third quarter rose to 12.5 million units, up 14.5 percent from 10.9 million in the second quarter, according to the IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms Service at information and analysis provider IHS. This strong growth dramatically exceeded the growth of the overall PC market, which expanded by only 5.5 percent during the same period, causing Lenovo’s share of global shipments to rise to 13.9 percent, up from 12.8 percent in the second quarter. © IHS HP: To PC or not to PC? HP in the third quarter expanded its shipments by 5.9 percent to 16.3 million units, up from 15.4 million in the second quarter. This was roughly in line with overall industry growth. Former HP chief executive Léo Apotheker in August said the company likely would spin off its PC division. PCs come up short Global PC shipments increased to 90.4 million units in the third quarter, up from 85.6 million in the second quarter. Shipments rose 2.6 percent compared to 88.1 million one year earlier, short of the IHS iSuppli forecast of 6.8 percent growth.

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March 28 2024 10:16 am V22.4.20-2
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