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China
eclipsed the United States as the world's largest personal-computer market in
the second quarter, and is set to capture the full-year title in 2012,
International Data Corporation said Tuesday.
PC
shipments in China rose to about 18.5 million units in the quarter, compared to
17.7 million units in the United States, research firm IDC said.
The
shipments were worth $11.9 billion and $11.7 billion, respectively.
During the
April-June period, China's market share of global PC shipments increased to 22
percent, surpassing the 21 percent share held by the world's biggest economy.
The data
includes desktops, portables and mini--notebooks, but not handhelds, such as
tablets, the research firm said in a global quarterly report.
IDC
forecast that 85.2 million units will be shipped in China in 2012, compared to
76.6 million in the US.
"There
are of course still risks ahead for China, including not just inflation but
also the impact of economic conditions in the US and Europe," Kitty Fok,
vice president for Greater China Research at IDC, said in the statement.
"But
in the meantime, the Chinese government's 12th Five-Year Plan should help large
enterprises... to continue to move along, not to mention of course the ongoing
efforts to increase consumer penetration in lower-tier cities."
AFP
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