The nation's second-quarter shipment of personal computers (PCs), comprising desktop and notebook computers, shrank by 1.8 percent year-on-year to 559,116 units, due to weakening corporate replacement demand and delayed government procurement bids, said the research house International Data Corp (IDC) Taiwan.
Compared to the previous quarter, however, the April-June quarter PC shipments grew 8.7 percent, bolstered by demand from the consumer and education markets, IDC Taiwan said in a report it released yesterday.
Notebook shipments totalled 140,943 units in the second quarter, up 12.8 percent quarter-on-quarter and 6.4 percent year-on-year, stimulated by the rollout of more low-priced, entry-level models and keen price competition, IDC Taiwan's analyst Sunny Chen (陳睿聆) said.
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Meanwhile, Acer, HP Taiwan, Asustek and Lenovo together made up 35.1 percent of the 418,173 desktop-unit shipments, up 7.3 percent from the first quarter but down 4.3 percent from a year ago, IDC said.
IDC expected the nation's PC shipments to grow in the traditionally busy second half of the year.
Nevertheless, annual PC shipments this year may not see growth as high as last year, since corporate replacement demand is coming to an end, the researcher said.
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