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Dubai: PC shipments into Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is expected to cross 100 million units this year, an increase of 8.65 per cent compared to more than 92 million units in 2007, according to research firm Gartner.
"Strong demand from the consumer segment has led to the growth of the mobile PCs while demand for desktops is slowing down the years. Despite desktop demand waning, they are not going to disappear from the market so soon."
Ranjit Atwal, principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group in EMEA, said.
According to company's preliminary results, shipments into the region rose 14.66 per cent from 80.25 million in 2006.
Largest market
"The EMEA region continued to be the largest PC market in 2007 followed by Asia/Pacific while markets such as US are experiencing slower growth," Atwal said.
The total value of PC market in 2008 is expected to reach $91 billion, an increase of 7.05 per cent compared to $85 billion in 2007.
The EMEA contributed 33 per cent to the global PC market value in 2007, of which 15 per cent came from Middle East and Africa.
Atwal said that the fourth quarter of the year saw continued growth in notebooks, but desk-based PC growth was weaker than expected for many vendors.
The industry ended the year with fourth quarter PC shipments of 28.8 million units, a 12.5 per cent increase from 25.6 million units registered in the fourth quarter of 2006.
Hewlett-Packard had a strong quarter and increased its market share to 20.2 per cent. The company exhibited growth on both desk-based and mobile segments. HP's shipments stood at 5.8 million units compared to 4.67 million units in 2006, with year-on-year growth of 24.3 per cent.
That was followed by Acer with 4.07 million units in fourth quarter 2007. The Taiwanese firm registered solid consumer mobile PC growth in EMEA and US due to the acquisition of Gateway and Packard Bell. It had a market share of 14.1 per cent in the quarter and a year-on-year growth of 23.2 per cent.
Dell continued its upward growth trend, finishing the year closer to the EMEA market growth rate as its mobile PC performance continued to improve. US firm's shipments in fourth quarter stood at 2.74 million units compared to 2.51 million units in 2006 with a market share of 9.5 per cent and 9.4 per cent year-on-year growth.
Worldwide PC shipments totalled 271.2 million units in 2007, a 13.4 per cent increase from 239.2 million units registered in 2007.
HP extended its lead in 2007 as it accounted for 18.2 per cent of global PC shipments followed by Dell with 14.3 per cent and Acer with 8.9 per cent, but Acer recorded the fastest year-on-year growth in EMEA and globally.
Acer shipments grew 32.9 per cent globally followed by HP with 30 per cent and Lenovo with 20.9 per cent. In the EMEA, Acer shipments grew 36.3 per cent followed by HP with 27.4 per cent and Toshiba with 26.1 per cent.
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