SAN FRANCISCO, April 15 morning news, according to foreign media reports, market research firm Gartner said yesterday that, by promoting economic recovery in Europe this year,, worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter than expected, reaching 84.3 million units, an increase of 27%.

Gartner had expected the first quarter,, worldwide PC shipments grew 22%. IDC recently released PC industry research report also said that a quarter of PC shipments worldwide grew 24% year on year. Rising demand in emerging markets and sales of call-in-one desktop PC sales were stimulated. IDC pointed out, PC has been a strong rebound out of weakness last year. Affected by the economic recession last year, a quarter of the global PC industry shipments fell 7 percent, the worst performance since 2001.

the world's largest chip maker Intel yesterday said it expects second quarter sales will continue to grow, highlights the company has begun to resume IT spending. 80% of the computers using the company's chips. IDC analyst Jay? Weeks (Jay Chou), said: "Last year most of the time, people are bad-mouthing desktop. However, we found that benefit from the integration of a large number of desktop market and the development of touch screen, desktop PC market performance was not bad. and Intel's earnings report shows that the next PC market will usher in a very good performance. "

HP remains the market leader, market share of nearly 1 / 5. However, the growth of Acer shipments to Hewlett-Packard still dwarfs. Acer, Dell last year as the world beyond the PC maker's second-largest. IDC data show that last quarter, HP's shipments grew 20 percent, Acer has increased by 43%.

Gartner said that a quarter of U.S. PC shipments reached 17.4 million units, up 20%. The largest market share of top five vendors were HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba and Apple. Gartner said that Apple's shipments grew 34%, the company's high-profile iPad had attracted the attention of many consumers. (Xiaobin)