Computer sales in Asia total 12.7M units--research house

April 20, 2007
Updated 13:27:14 (Mla time)

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE--Personal computer sales in the Asia Pacific region outside Japan totaled 12.7 million units in the first quarter, up 18 percent compared with the same period a year earlier, preliminary figures from a research house showed Friday.

Sales slowed 2.0 percent, however, from the final quarter last year due to the February Lunar New Year holidays in most of the region, International Data Corp (IDC) said.

During the March quarter, Chinese computer maker Lenovo was the top seller with 17.8 percent of market share as sales surged 24.3 percent from the same period in 2006, IDC said.

US technology giant Hewlett-Packard was the number two vendor with a 15.4-percent market share, followed by Texas-based Dell which accounted for 8.1 percent, the researchers said.

Acer of Taiwan was in fourth spot with 6.5 percent and Founder of China ranked sixth at 5.6 percent.

The rest of the sales were by non-branded computer makers.

IDC is based in the United States with offices worldwide.

 

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