China over the U.S. becomes the world's largest PC market in the second quarter

China became the world's largest PC market in the second quarter of this year, according to IDC, a market research firm.　　In a recent interview, IDC analysts said PC shipments in the Chinese market grew 14% per cent in the second quarter to 18.5 million, while PC shipments in the U.S. market fell 4.8% to 17.7 million, meaning China had overtaken the US as the world's largest PC market. In addition, Chinese corporate Lenovo also surpassed Acer in the global PC industry, rising to third, and the gap with the second Dell is gradually shrinking.　　Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC maker, said it was in the market for its own personal-systems group, which is currently being evaluated by Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of personal computers. The change also suggests that the market for PC makers around the world is changing rapidly, and that the emergence of smartphones and tablets has negatively affected sales of traditional desktop computers and laptops, and that demand for the US PC market in developed countries has stopped growing.　　Industry insiders believe that the PC industry's focus has shifted from the developed countries to emerging markets, the Chinese market is becoming more and more important, the U.S. PC manufacturers are bound to local manufacturers such as Lenovo Group to launch fierce competition. Given that the U.S. market has a Christmas sales season at the end of each year, IDC analyst Sundaram predicts that the US PC market will remain slightly more than China's for the year, but may be less than China's sales next year,　　He predicts that the market for PCs in the U.S. and China next year is 85.1 million units and 76.6 million units respectively. (Zhu)