Shipments of home desktop PC’s in China were up 40.8% year-on-year in the first six months of this year, but shipments of business PCs rose by only 14%, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). A total of 2.22 million PCs were shipped, of which 500,000 were for the home and the rest for offices. The market share of foreign brands continued to decline, with six Chinese makers in the top 10 the report said, without giving details.
The home PC market, after one-year’s cultivation, is taking off and will be a new growth area for the whole PC market, said IDC researcher Fanny Yang. She said the market had been stimulated by a range of new promotional strategies including internet-bundled free PCs and naked PCs with little or no software bundled in. She said that local manufacturers are better placed to cash in on the demand for home PCs and their market share will increase as the percentage of home PCs to the total continues to grow.
