The annual worldwide market share of personal computer vendors includes
desktop computers,
laptop computers, and
netbooks but excludes
mobile devices, such as
tablet computers that do not fall under the category of
2-in-1 PCs. The global market leader has been
Lenovo in every year since 2013, followed by
HP and
Dell. Previously,
Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s.
Sales volume worldwide grew rapidly in the late 1990s but declined briefly around the
early 2000s recession. Sales increased again for the rest of the decade though more slowly during the late 2000s recession. After substantial growth in 2010, sales volume started declining in 2012 which continued for seven consecutive years until 2019. A consumer-lead spike in PC sales occurred in 2020 and 2021 as a result of stay-at-home orders related to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
(*) Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the
Intelx86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.
Worldwide (1975–1995)
Personal computer architectures by units sold (1975–1995)[27]
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abGartner Dataquest Says PC market Experienced Slight Upturn in 2002, but Industry Still Shows No Signs of Strong Rebound. Gartner Press Release. January 17, 2003.
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abGartner Says PC Vendors Experienced a Happy Holiday Season with Fourth Quarter Worldwide Shipments Increasing 12 Percent. Gartner Press Release. January 14, 2004.
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abcdefghijklmJapan Electronics Almanac. Dempa Publications. 1990. p. 145. The domestic shipment value of personal computers in fiscal 1988 totaled ¥649 billion (up 23 percent over fiscal 1987); the domestic shipment volume was 1,375,000 (up 14 percent over 1987). The value of domestic shipments has recorded annual growth. Conversely, the volume of domestic shipments of personal computers stabilized at the 1,200,000-nit mark for four years beginning in fiscal 1984. However, this volume began to increase rapidly in fiscal 1988.
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ab"ElectronicsWeek". ElectronicsWeek. Vol. 58, no. 13–23.
McGraw-Hill. 1985. p. 41. The home computer market in Japan consumed 1.1 million machines last year and is growing modestly in 1985, but it remains essentially a game market. (...) The two largest producers of home computers in Japan—NEC Corp., which claims a 40% market share, and Sharp Corp., which claims 20%—do not use the MSX (Microsoft Extended Basic) system that Microsoft Corp. developed and has licensed to 18 other Japanese companies. Total MSX sales last year are estimated at 350,000 units. But NEC's best-selling 8801-MII is used mostly by university students and small businesses for bookkeeping or document filing; MSX users are overwhelmingly 15 years of age or younger—game fanatics.
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abJapan Electronics Almanac. Dempa Publications. 1990. p. 146. The volume of domestic shipments of the MSX remained at the 150,000 mark, for a marked decline of 56 percent from 1987.
The annual worldwide market share of personal computer vendors includes
desktop computers,
laptop computers, and
netbooks but excludes
mobile devices, such as
tablet computers that do not fall under the category of
2-in-1 PCs. The global market leader has been
Lenovo in every year since 2013, followed by
HP and
Dell. Previously,
Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s.
Sales volume worldwide grew rapidly in the late 1990s but declined briefly around the
early 2000s recession. Sales increased again for the rest of the decade though more slowly during the late 2000s recession. After substantial growth in 2010, sales volume started declining in 2012 which continued for seven consecutive years until 2019. A consumer-lead spike in PC sales occurred in 2020 and 2021 as a result of stay-at-home orders related to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
(*) Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the
Intelx86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.
Worldwide (1975–1995)
Personal computer architectures by units sold (1975–1995)[27]
^
abGartner Dataquest Says PC market Experienced Slight Upturn in 2002, but Industry Still Shows No Signs of Strong Rebound. Gartner Press Release. January 17, 2003.
^
abGartner Says PC Vendors Experienced a Happy Holiday Season with Fourth Quarter Worldwide Shipments Increasing 12 Percent. Gartner Press Release. January 14, 2004.
^
abcdefghijklmJapan Electronics Almanac. Dempa Publications. 1990. p. 145. The domestic shipment value of personal computers in fiscal 1988 totaled ¥649 billion (up 23 percent over fiscal 1987); the domestic shipment volume was 1,375,000 (up 14 percent over 1987). The value of domestic shipments has recorded annual growth. Conversely, the volume of domestic shipments of personal computers stabilized at the 1,200,000-nit mark for four years beginning in fiscal 1984. However, this volume began to increase rapidly in fiscal 1988.
^
ab"ElectronicsWeek". ElectronicsWeek. Vol. 58, no. 13–23.
McGraw-Hill. 1985. p. 41. The home computer market in Japan consumed 1.1 million machines last year and is growing modestly in 1985, but it remains essentially a game market. (...) The two largest producers of home computers in Japan—NEC Corp., which claims a 40% market share, and Sharp Corp., which claims 20%—do not use the MSX (Microsoft Extended Basic) system that Microsoft Corp. developed and has licensed to 18 other Japanese companies. Total MSX sales last year are estimated at 350,000 units. But NEC's best-selling 8801-MII is used mostly by university students and small businesses for bookkeeping or document filing; MSX users are overwhelmingly 15 years of age or younger—game fanatics.
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abJapan Electronics Almanac. Dempa Publications. 1990. p. 146. The volume of domestic shipments of the MSX remained at the 150,000 mark, for a marked decline of 56 percent from 1987.