Third-quarter 2014 global notebook shipments are estimated at 45.198 million units (not including 2-in-1 models), increasing 6.4% sequentially and 2.6% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
HP accounted for 21% of the global shipments, followed by Lenovo (20.9%), Dell (12.5%), Acer (9.7%), Apple (8.5%), Asustek Computer (8.3%) and Toshiba (6.2%), Digitimes Research indicated.
Taiwan-based ODMs shipped 36.958 notebooks in the quarter, accounting for 81.77% of global shipments with their shipments growing 6.1% sequentially but slipping 2.9% on year.
Quanta Computer was the largest ODM accounting for 34.6% of the shipments, Compal Electronics 32.2%, Wistron 15.7%, Inventec 6.7% and Pegatron 5.7%.
Of the ODM shipments, 8.2% were sub-12-inch models, 2.9% 12-inch ones, 13% 13-inch ones, 22.7% 14-inch ones, 47.2% 15-inch ones, 6.1% 16-inch and above ones.
This article is an excerpt from a Digitimes Research Quarterly Data Report (Taiwan notebooks – 3Q 2014). Visit our latest Data reports.
This article is an excerpt from a Digitimes Research Special Report (Taiwan notebooks – 3Q 2014). Visit our latest Special reports.