SHANGHAI: PC shipments rose 19 percent in Asia, excluding Japan, in the third quarter, and share for China's Lenovo jumped sharply after its purchase this year of IBM's PC assets, according to data released on Thursday.
PC shipments totalled 10.9 million units in the third quarter, coming in above initial forecasts, on strong results in China, Taiwan and South Korea, according to preliminary data from International Data Corp.
"The highlight of the third quarter's PC market in Asia was notebooks once again," IDC analyst Bryan Ma said in a statement.
"Notebook shipments for the region grew by an astonishing 54 percent year-on-year, while desktop PCs only grew by 12 percent over the same period."
Lenovo led the region with 20.4 percent market share, up from 12.8 percent share a year earlier, following its $1.25 billion purchase of IBM's personal computer assets this spring.
The company's third-quarter result was up more modestly from its 18.5 percent share in the second quarter, the first period that included figures from the IBM purchase. Hewlett-Packard was the region's second-biggest player, with a 12.4 percent share, up from 9.7 percent a year earlier.
Dell was number three, with its regional share rising to 7.8 percent from 6.9 percent a year earlier.
Taiwan's Acer Inc., which has embarked on major campaigns in China and North America, saw its Asia Pacific market share jump to 5.5 percent in the third quarter from 4.4 percent a year earlier, making it the region's fifth biggest player.
The company, arguably Taiwan's best known technology brand, is trying to unseat Lenovo as the world's third biggest PC seller by 2007.
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