Global and China Laptop and Tablet PC Industry Report, 2009-2010
The price slump of notebook PC stimulated the marketplace even during global economic downturn in 2009, and the debut of netbook facilitated the sale. In emerging countries, there is a tiny laptop population but with significant development room. Despite the fact that the annual growth rate of laptop shipment worldwide declines, the shipment still remains steady growth, indicating that the laptop industry is nonetheless creating healthily.
Global Laptop Shipment and Annual Growth Rate, 2003-2011
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Source: ResearchInChina
Netbook sector is a branch and an important part of conventional laptop industry. Acer was the largest netbook manufacturer from 2008 to 2009, followed by ASUS, HP, Samsung and Dell in sequence.
In early 2010, Apple launched a Tablet PC "iPad", then major hardware vendors keep up with the trend to launch their own Tablet PCs in H2 2010. The market size of Tablet PC will reach 12 million sets or more in 2010 and much more than 55 million sets in 2014. The emergence of Tablet PCs grabs the market shares of netbooks, so that the growth of netbook industry will slow down strikingly.
In the world, the majority of laptops and Tablet PCs are created by Taiwanese OEMs of which Quanta, Compal, Inventec and Wistron are the leaders each with the shipment of over 20 million sets.
Shipment of Major Laptop OEMs Worldwide, 2009-2010
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Source: ResearchInChina
In Q3 2010, the demand for laptops dropped abruptly, which resulted in the declining of earnings of Taiwanese OEMs.
However, main brand manufacturers are optimistic about the marketplace in Q4 2010, and have planned to roll out new merchandise in 2011. Also, they have confidence in the laptop and Tablet PC industry in 2011.
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