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HP was named the world’s largest PC manufacturer for 2007, with
18.8 percent of global PC unit shipments for the calendar year,
according to results from the fourth calendar quarter of 2007
released today by industry analyst firm IDC.
According to IDC’s report, HP’s global unit
shipment growth of 30.1 percent for 2007 more than doubled the
average yearly growth rate of 14.3 percent. In the final quarter of
2007, HP held its lead in worldwide PC unit shipments with
19-percent market share.
The company grew at a rate of 23.3 percent year
over year for the fourth calendar quarter, substantially faster than
the overall global PC market growth rate of 15.5 percent for the
period. HP’s US shipments grew at a rate of 9.8 percent in
the fourth quarter to capture 24.3-percent market share.
The HP personal computing lineup delivers some
of the industry’s most stylish designs and easy-to-use features,
such as the youth-designed Artist Edition HP Pavilion notebook and
the tablet and touch-enabled HP Pavilion tx2000 Entertainment
Notebook, both of which debuted earlier this month at CES 2008.
-- Tech Times
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