The PC market in Asia-Pacific grew 3% to 29.4 million units in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the corresponding quarter previous year, according to new report from IDC.
The market grew 2% sequentially, which was in line with the forecast made by IDC earlier.
The hard disc drives (HDD) supply issue had impacted the situation, but improvement was seen towards the end of the quarter to keep shipments up, particularly in the ASEAN region, which witnessed strong vendor-driven activity.
IDC Asia-Pacific Client Devices Research associate vice president Bryan Ma said while this quarter’s growth was abnormally low, it was good to see that the industry was generally able to work around supply constraints to keep the market moving
"Looking ahead, there are still some risks around the economy and channel inventory, but there are also a number of public sector projects as well as new platforms like Windows 8 and ultraslim notebooks that can push the market ahead in 2012," Ma said.
In terms of PC vendors, Lenovo with 21.8% market share was the leader in the market, while the market share for PC giants HP and Dell have declined 9.1% and 9%, respectively.
IDC said that Lenovo did well in India as compared to China particularly due to shipments for a large education notebook project, while HP managed to regain some lost momentum in China.
After posting a strong Q4 in 2011 Dell dropped back in many countries in Q1 2012, while ASUS remained very aggressive in China and the ASEAN region in the quarter and achieved a growth of 40%.
