Staff WritersIDC says Lenovo has “surged” past HP in the Asia Pacific (Ex-Japan) PC market as it swallows IBM’s PC business.
Reporting a year on year growth of more than 90 per cent put Lenovo on the front foot thanks to the IBM PC division adding to the company’s fortune. It all proved too much for downsizing HP which fell into second place despite a 34.4 per cent unit growth year.
The second quarter results, posted by IDC Asia Pacific this week also showed Dell picked up some points in the quarter. It was year on year growth that delivered the best results for all, with every one of the top five players posting better than 25 per cent growth rate. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo all did better than 34 per cent with Dell delivering a healthy 47.9 per cent growth in unit shipments over the previous year.
IDC’s preliminary results show that the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market totalled 9.5 million units in the second quarter of 2005, representing a sequential growth of 7 per cent and a robust 17 per cent year on year growth.
“The PC market gave another impressive performance this quarter throughout most countries in the Asia/Pacific region,” said Bryan Ma, Associate Director of Personal Systems Research at IDC Asia/Pacific. “Lenovo also took back its top spot by not only riding on the seasonal recovery in China, but through its newly-acquired IBM’s Personal Computing Division (PCD), which provided Lenovo with an even more significant lead over second-place HP.”
As we know Australia performed well on the back of some large tenders and a high level of interest in notebooks, while the Chinese market responded well to lower prices as well as demand for desktop PCs from the government, education, and telecommunication sectors, says IDC.
Singapore unfortunately fronted up a little short sequentially as the new fiscal year rolled around.
The disappearance of IBM from the figures pushed Acer into fifth spot with 4.9 per cent, a marginal improvement from earlier quarters.
Q205 PC Marketshares Asia Pacifc (ex-Japan)
Rank Vendor Share
1 Lenovo 19.0%
2 HP 12.3%
3 Dell 9.0%
4 Founder 5.5%
5 Acer 4.9%
Other Total 49.3%