Driven by price cuts, worldwide PC shipments totaled 54.9 million units in the second quarter of 2006, an 11 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
Central processing unit (CPU) inventory clearance activity by Intel, and generally more aggressive pricing by Intel and AMD attributed to lower prices in the quarter. The impact of the CPU price decline varied among regions. In the United States and Asia/Pacific, the cuts boosted shipments, while in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) where there remains higher than normal finished goods inventory, shipments were adversely impacted.
“On a worldwide basis, large vendors continued to gain share at the expense of mid-tier vendors and system builders,” said Charles Smulders, vice president of Gartner’s Client Computing Group, in the press release. “The price cuts during the quarter undoubtedly helped the large vendors, as they were able to put more pricing pressure on the smaller players. Intel’s accelerated ramp on its new CPU lines will expose those vendors who have not invested enough in tools and processes to manage their supply chain.”
In the second quarter of 2006, the top 5 vendors accounted for nearly 50 percent of the worldwide PC market (see Table 1). These vendors all grew faster than the overall industry average. Dell maintained its No. 1 position in worldwide PC shipments, as it continued to grow much faster outside the United States. Hewlett-Packard continued to show strength in the worldwide market, backed by solid consumer growth, mainly in mature markets.
Table 1
Preliminary Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q06
(Thousands of Units)
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2Q06 2Q06 Market 2Q05 2Q05 Market 2Q06-2Q05
Company Shipments Share (%) Shipments Share (%) Growth (%)
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Dell 9,730 17.7 8,717 17.6 11.6
Hewlett-Packard 8,107 14.8 7,126 14.4 13.8
Lenovo 3,994 7.3 3,518 7.1 13.5
Acer 2,836 5.2 2,105 4.3 34.7
Toshiba 1,906 3.5 1,496 3.0 27.4
Others 28,338 51.6 26,520 53.6 6.9
Total 54,911 100.00 49,482 100.0 11.0
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Note: Data includes deskbased PCs, mobile PCs and X86 servers.
Source: Gartner Dataquest (July 2006)
The EMEA region experienced single-digit growth for the first time in three years, as PC shipments in the region totaled 16.7 million units, a 7 percent increase from the same period last year. The slower growth rate was exaggerated by vendors and the channel trying to reduce high PC inventory positions, as well as working to ensure the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) recycling directive compliance.
The PC market in the United States grew 6.4 percent, as shipments reached 16.6 million units in the second quarter (see Table 2). Dell grew at the industry average in the United States, and this performance was much better than the first quarter. Dell’s focus on service and support, and adoption of a more aggressive pricing strategy were key factors in its better performance. HP had much faster growth than the U.S. industry average due to strong consumer shipments.
“The consumer market continued to lead the U.S. PC market, as mobile PC shipments remained strong. Accelerated price declines associated with the CPU oversupply stimulated additional mobile demand,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner Dataquest’s Client Computing Markets Group. “The professional market experienced slow growth mainly due to the sluggish sales in the large enterprise market, however the small business market continued to grow steadily.”
Table 2
Preliminary U.S. PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q06
(Thousands of Units)
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2Q06 2Q06 Market 2Q05 2Q05 Market 2Q06-2Q05
Company Shipments Share (%) Shipments Share (%) Growth (%)
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Dell 5,302 32.0 4,988 32.0 6.3
Hewlett-Packard 3,127 18.9 2,713 17.4 15.2
Gateway 1,035 6.2 890 5.7 16.3
Apple Computer 766 4.6 663 4.3 15.4
Lenovo 639 3.9 607 3.9 5.3
Others 5,717 34.5 5,724 36.7 -0.1
Total 16,587 100.00 15,585 100.0 6.4
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Note: Data includes deskbased PCs, mobile PCs and X86 servers.
Source: Gartner Dataquest (July 2006)
Asia/Pacific and Latin America continued to be the regions with the strongest growth rates. The Asia/Pacific PC market grew 22.5 percent, as shipments reached 12.4 million units in the second quarter. The region was driven by mobile PC shipments which increased 48 percent in the quarter compared to the same period last year.
Latin America PC shipments increased 27 percent in the second quarter with shipments totaling 4.2 million units. Local-branded vendors experienced accelerated growth due to their strong retail presence and their participation in low cost PC programs.
In Japan, PC market growth was nearly flat as shipments reached 3.5 million units in the second quarter, a 0.5 percent increase from the same period last year. Negative consumer growth was offset by stronger sales in the professional market.
These results are preliminary. Additional research can be found on Gartner’s Computing Hardware section on Gartner’s Web site at http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/asset_129157_2395.jsp
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Gartner blows.
They’re so anti-Apple they can barely report facts on them.
Don’t give those MS-loving bastards any hits/publicity.
“…and X86 servers.” so not yet counting xserves either, not bad
So, according to the data
1: Dell and Lenovo/IBM remained the same
2: HP increased 1.5% taking a bit from Gateway and from “others”
3: Apple increased .3 % taking from Gateway and “others”.
4: Thus Gateway is dying like I predicted long ago.
Question: What can Apple do to take from Dell?
Answer: Nothing because of M$.
Apple is just going to have to face the Redmond beast one day with a better server OS, better buisness software and attractive hardware pricing.
MacCarb, shut up you ignorant slut.
from TFA: “The PC market in the United States grew 6.4 percent”
Dell grew in the volume of their shipments by 6.3%, which means they had a net loss of growth.
Apple had 15.4% growth, which was second only to Gateway who experienced 16.3% growth.
Intel releasing Quad core Kentsfields THIS YEAR!!
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6096192.html?part=rss&tag=6096192&subj=news
As you know this chip has been leaked already and it tested about 25% more performance than a PPC Quad G5.
Now thats four cores on one chip and two chips fit in the current PowerMac case. That equals eight cores.
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Apple might not go with this processor right away, perhaps using the (still expensive) xeons until early next year, then coming out with a 8 core Kentsfield sonofa beotch with BlueRay DVD.
I’ll wait for that.
In case you’re not aware, Gartner is a well known whore.
Nick, I’m talking about market share not volume of units.
MDN word: “Tor” Like Onion servers?
1/2 of Dell’s shipments this past quarter were to replace Dells from the previous quarter… <hehehe>
“1/2 of Dell’s shipments this past quarter were to replace Dells from the previous quarter… <hehehe>”
Funny, on one of the other forums I belong to, a guy had to have his Dell system replaced at work 4 times in one year!
Something that bears remembering — Apple is marketed as being different. It has a different OS. It’s in a different store. It’s a different experience. People buying Apples make a choice to change. Given that most people don’t want to change, that Apple is convincing people to change is a big pyschological victory. There’s not much difference among the IBMAcerDellHPCompaqLenovo crowd. They’re just like the mass media — cosmetic differences with the same foundation of BS.
Well if Gartner are currently excluding xServes and Power Macs, surely at the next quarters earnings release, Apple will see massive growth due to inclusion of previously ommitted unit sales.
(Assuming most Clone server manufacturers are pumping out servers running the same processors as Apple by then – Intel Core/Xeon processor, whichever apple chose to go with).
Anyway, please remember Apple may only have 5% market share, but I expect 95% of those end users WANTED to use apple.
Of the rest of the 95% of the market, I expect 5% actually had a chioce as to what they bought and used!)
I love the wording
“Apple grabbed 4.6% market share”. They had 4.3 to start with. Not much grabbing.
To me, you “grab” market share by doing underhand things to ensure you are chosen. For instance….. selling at pathetically low margins to win purely on cost, or severly comporomising quality to reduce cost.
I guess at least there is a chice in the market for those that are prepared to sacrifice quality. It does pain me that this decision is often taken by people that won’t have to use the darn thing.
Dr Mcr said: “Apple grabbed 4.6% market share”. They had 4.3 to start with. Not much grabbing.
That’s a 7% growth in market share – in a growing market, in a single quarter. They “grabbed” it by having really cool products on the shelves when folks wandered in to buy iPods. They “grabbed” it by letting people know they don’t have to put up with viruses or having their Window boxes hijacked. they “grabbed” it by giving away iLife ’06 with every new system – everybody thinks they have at least one song, or movie, or killer web site in them.
Real Soon Now they will start to “grab” it in the office. And their server numbers will start to count with the “other” X86 servers. They are #4 in the US today, not yet #5 in the World. Expect to see them at #3 US and #5 World within the year.
AAPL did not beat the revenue expectations they only beat the price share which means they didnt sell much macs and halo effect is bs.
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This is precisely we the majority pc users hates the dump-azz machingtrash users; for only %5 users base they surely make some noise.
All of these mac-bozo hide behind their childlish looking system telling us how they would make the world better but in truth, it serve to make them feel justified for their spending on their cost over-run system. I am so glad to know my place in this earth because I know that the world will always migrate toward greatness; it’s just the law of nature and something that macinhtrash users have no knowledge of or refuse to believe in. in reading most of these messages; all I getting out of is how they’re talking about their system is being copied or their idea is stolen like it is of their own design.
Here a little truth macsuxker; the world is and always “steal/copied/borrow” ideas in order to achieve enlightenment. If you don’t believe me just look back thru the history of humankind; we by nature learn to survive by copied or adapt from each other in order to exist, ie… potatoes, corn, horses, gunpowder, shipbuilding, art of war… if you learn the truth for each of those you’d know. For example, way back in ’80 some punk caught a glimse of GUI system being put on demonstration by Xerox; he likes it so much that he borrow the idea and claimed it as his own invention for when the first personal computing system; he state that it CHEAPER than what’s XEROX system is therefore it is not a copied but a completely new idea; amazingly he’d turn around and accused other for being copying his GUI idea.
I know for a fact that lots of windows functionality ideas are the combination of various oses and the windows os itself had just mature to its next level which make my job better for a cost that I can sleep at night. I know for a fact that I don’t have to scale back my spending for other items due to my personal computer gobble up most of the cash; something machingtrash users cannot apprehend. And here’s that FACT that you won’t here from these bozo: remember when they scream how SLOW the Intel CPU is compare to 68xxx CPU and how their Nu-Bus is being SUPERIOR to the PCI bus. Look at them NOW! First mac/apple abandoned its core os (GUI is GUI nothing more) to use the Linux core. And force their own users to UPGRADE by TRASHING their current system; no emulation here. Talk about blind faith; I wonder what would happen if AMD speed up their processor and Intel not able crank out fast enough to meet demands…wonder who’d suffer???
Now mac-luvers, go buy yourself the latest generation of ipod so that apple stock can rise a little higher before it burst and plug that ipod where the sun don’t shine!