Gartner: Global PC Shipments Up 0.1% In Q2

(RTTNews) - Worldwide PC shipments grew 0.1% year-over-year to 75.8 million units in the second quarter of 2014, capping eight quarters of declining shipments, preliminary results from market research firm Gartner, Inc. (IT) showed Wednesday.

"While the worldwide PC market stopped two years of declining shipments in the second quarter, there were mixed results, as stabilization in developed markets was offset by a decline in emerging markets," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. "The PC industry in emerging markets has been impacted by the allure of low-cost tablets. These low-cost tablets continue to take spending from new PC units, meaning that it will take more time for PC sales to stabilize in emerging markets."

China's Lenovo continued to be the world's largest PC vendor in the second quarter with a 19.2% market share, followed by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) with 17.7% and Dell with 13.3%. Taiwan's Acer Group took the fourth position with 7.9% market share.

In the U.S., PC shipments rose 7.4% to 15.9 million units in the second quarter. HP continued to be the No. 1 vendor in the U.S., as it accounted for 27.7% of shipments, followed by Dell with 26.0% and Lenovo with 11.5%. Apple, Inc. (AAPL) slipped to the fourth position with 10.6% market share.