Thursday, February 6, 2003
China's Legend shored up its lead in the Asia-Pacific's personal computer market during 2002, growing at twice the pace of No-1 PC leader Hewlett-Packard according to market research report.
Dataquest said in a statement from Singapore that PC sales in the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, grew 8.6 percent to 21.7 million units sold during 2002, or nearly three times the global industry rate, which has been weighed down by maturing demand in North America and Europe.
"The Asia-Pacific market's growth rate was a significant contributor to the worldwide industry returning to positive growth in 2002," Lillian Tay, a senior analyst with Dataquest, a unit of technology market research company Gartner Inc.
The region accounted for 16.3 percent of world PC shipments that Gartner estimates totaled 132.4 million last year. Japan shipped another 8.9 percent of the world total.
Separately, Gartner counted PC shipments during 2002 in Japan of 11.8 million, making it the world's second largest computer market behind the United States and ahead of China. But annual Japanese PC shipments fell 10 percent from 2001.
In Asia outside of Japan, IBM held steady in third place, followed by Dell Computer, the only company among the top five PC makers in the region to grow at double-digit rates -- or 23 percent to be exact.
Dell surged past former No. 4-ranked Samsung Electronics of Korea, which suffered a 1 percent decline in growth last year.
By: DocMemory
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