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Acer Scores Biggest PC Shipment Growth Worldwide In Second Quarter
- By The Financial District
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min read
Acer Inc., one of Taiwan's leading PC brands, registered the highest year-on-year shipment growth among the world's top five suppliers in the second quarter of this year, according to market information advisory firm International Data Corp. (IDC), Jeffrey Wu and Frances Huang reported for Central News Agency (CNA).
In a research report, IDC said the world's PC industry continued to ride the waves of strong demand, which has boosted its shipments despite a shortage of components and logistics issues. In the April-June period, Acer shipped 6.09 million PCs to take a 7.3 percent share in the global PC market as the fifth-largest supplier, IDC's data showed.
Acer's shipments rose 17.6 percent from a year earlier, beating the growth recorded by the other four top suppliers and also topping the global growth average, according to IDC. The Taiwanese brand's global market share also rose from 7.0 percent seen in the second quarter of last year, the IDC data showed.
In response to the IDC report, Acer said it has intensified its efforts to secure patents to upgrade research and development and maintain innovations, a way which pushed up sales of computers and peripheral items.
In the second quarter, PC shipments worldwide rose 13.2 percent from a year earlier to 83.61 million units. China's Lenovo Group Ltd. took the top spot in the three-month period with a 23.9 percent market share after shipping 20.01 million PCs, up 14.9 percent from a year earlier, IDC said.
US-based HP Inc. came in second with a 22.2 percent share, after its shipments in the second quarter rose 2.7 percent to 18.59 million PCs in 2020.
Another American brand, Dell Inc., saw its shipments for the three-month period rise 16.4 percent to 13.98 million units, giving it a 16.7 percent share as the third-largest supplier, followed by Apple Inc., which shipped 6.16 million units, up 9.4 percent from a year earlier, to take a 7.4 percent share.
