IDC & Gartner Agree, Lenovo King PC Of the World

BEIJING - According to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) and Gartner, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) for the second time managed to become a leader of vendors Personal Computer (PC) world. However, HP's market share declined in the second quarter in 2013 forced the company is in the second position, making Lenovo the lead in the first position.

After October 2012 and released different data, IDC and Gartner now agree that Lenovo is the number one PC vendor in the world for the second quarter of this year. Earlier in October 2012, Gartner gave Lenovo the number one position, while IDC chose HP.

As for the second quarter, Gartner suggests that Lenovo shipped 12.6 million PCs with a 16.7 percent market share. While HP's PC shipments reached 12.4 million with 16.3 percent market share. The next position is occupied by a Dell PC with 8.9 million units and 11.8 percent market share, Acer Group with 6.3 million and a market share of 8.3 percent, and Asus with 4.5 million units of PC and 6 percent market share.

As a comparison, based on version IDC, Lenovo's market share rose from 15 percent in the second quarter of 2012 to 16.7 percent in the second quarter of 2013. While Gartner gave Lenovo 16.7 percent rate, up from 14.9 percent in the second quarter of 2012. Then according to Gartner, HP only managed to reach 16.3 percent market share worldwide and 16.4 percent based on the standard IDC.

Overall, the global PC market has decreased over the same period last year. According to Gartner, the PC market fell 10.9 percent and 11.4 percent down version of the IDC. Meanwhile, the HP has issued a statement responding to the position of the two companies in the PC market.

"We do not like being number two and we do not plan to stay there. We're focused on building profitable businesses and has a smart future," said an HP spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal, as quoted by AllThingsD, Thursday (11 / 7/2013).