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| Computer shipments grew in the third quarter, the fastest in a decade |
According to estimates by market research firm Canalys, PC manufacturers shipped 79.2 million PCs in the third quarter of this year, an increase of 12.7 percent from the same period last year, and the fastest growing in the past decade. I mentioned on Friday.
Despite the increasing popularity of cell phones and tablets in recent years due to the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, people in recent years have turned to computers to work or study at home. Month.
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Canalys estimates Taiwanese Acer was the biggest personal beneficiary of this trend in the third quarter of 2020. The company shipped about 5.6 million computers, an increase of 15%.
The included Acer computer has a Chromebook running Google Chrome OS. The company said: China's Lenovo, which ranked first in the personal computing industry in the third quarter, shipped nearly 19.3 million computers, up 11.4 percent.
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According to the report, the American company (HP) HP grew by 11.9% after Lenovo ranked second with 18.7 million units. Although Dell ranked third, shipments were down 0.5% year-over-year. Apple is the second largest company after Acer as it increased sales by 13.2%.
Microsoft (its Windows 10 operating system can run on over a billion devices) announced in May that users spend more than 4 trillion minutes on Windows 10 every month, an increase of 75% over the year. .
Other research firms such as Gartner and IDC have not released estimates for PC shipments for the third quarter of 2020. Gartner announced in July that PC shipments rose 2.8%. percentage.