The global shipment of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, grew 55.2 percent year-over-year during the first quarter, according to preliminary results from IDC. While PCs remain in extremely high demand, the growth rate benefited from the shortages faced in Q1 2020 when the global pandemic began, resulting in an unusually favourable year-on-year comparison. Lenovo was the market leader in Q1 with a market share of 24.3 percent, followed by fellow PC manufacturers HP, Dell, Apple and Acer.
PC shipments reached 84 million worldwide in Q1, a modest 8 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2020. While sequential declines are typical for the first quarter, a decline this small has not been seen since the first quarter of 2012 when the PC market declined 7.5 percent sequentially.
Unfulfilled demand from the past year carried forward into the first quarter and additional demand brought on by the pandemic has also continued to drive volume, the researches noticed. However, the market continues to struggle with setbacks including component shortages and logistics issues, each of which has contributed to an increase in average selling prices. The continued resurgence in the PC market as well as increases in average selling prices (ASPs) were primarily driven by growth in gaming, the need for higher performance notebooks in the enterprise, and an increase in demand for touchscreens within the education segment.
Lenovo first in top 5
Lenovo was the market leader in Q1 with 20.400 million units and a market share of 24.3 percent, registering a 59.1 percent year-on-year growth in terms of shipments. HP was the runner up in the classification with almost 19.240 million shipped units and a market share of 22.9 percent, registering 64.1 percent growth in terms of shipments. Dell was third with shipments of 12.950 million and a market share of 15.4 percent, seeing a 23.4 percent rise in shipments during the interval.
Apple was far behind the companies with around 6.690 million shipped PCs, corresponding to a market share of 8 percent. However, its number of shipments jumped 111.5 percent in the quarter, the highest increase among all manufacturers.
Acer closed the top 5 classification with almost 5.840 million shipped units and a market share of 7 percent, registering a 73.5 percent spike in terms of shipped units during the same period, the second highest increased in terms of shipped units.
The rest of the manufacturers shipped around 18.870 million, representing a market share of 22.5 percent. Their combined shipments rose 50.3 percent versus Q1 2020.
