Gartner: Global PC Market Master Lenovo

Lenovo, according to Gartner, worldwide PC eventually dominate the market in the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. China-based company managed to shift the Hewlett-Packard (HP), the U.S. based company that has dominated the world PC sales.

According to Gartner, in the third quarter of 2012, Lenovo will ship about 13.7 million PC units, up 9.8 percent from 12.5 million units in the same quarter last year.

Lenovo is one of two companies that managed to boost PC sales in the third quarter. The second company that managed to do that is Asus.

Being in the 5th position, Asus had shipped 6.3 million devices worldwide PC. This value increased 11.8 percent, compared with the third quarter of 2011. At that time, Asus shipped 5.7 million PC units only.

HP came in second place in the list that was released by Gartner. The number of PCs shipped by HP are actually not too far from Lenovo. Companies based in Sillicon Valley is 13.5 million PC units shipped in the quarter, down 16.4 percent from the same quarter last year. Last year, HP had shipped 16.2 million units worldwide PC.

According to a report by Gartner is slightly different from the data reported by IDC. According to IDC, HP still the leader of the global PC market.

According to IDC, HP has managed to sell 13.9 million units of PCs around the world. While still being a leader, HP is dramatically decreased. Last year, HP had shipped 16.6 million units of PCs.

While Lenovo shipped 13.8 million units in the third quarter of this PC. Total market share of HP and Lenovo differ only 0.2 percent. Version IDC, HP has a 15.9 percent market share of the global PC market, while Lenovo controlled 15.7 percent market share.

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