Analysts of TrendForce report quarterly and annual growth of world notebook shipments in the last quarter. According to their estimates, shipments of laptops in April-June 2017 reached 39.96 million units, which is 5.7% and 3.6% more than in January-March and the second quarter of 2016. It is also noted that, due to demand in the North American market, global deliveries in the first half of the year exceeded expectations and reached 77.76 million notebooks.

A number of experts fear that the rise in the first half of the year may be replaced by a fall in demand for the second, but TrendForce believes that in the third quarter of 2017, laptop shipments will rise another 3-5% relative to the previous quarter. In addition, analysts slightly improved the annual forecast for the notebook market. If the previously expected decline in deliveries by 2-4%, but now experts say that the setback will not exceed 2% in 2017.

In the report prepared by experts the rating of leading manufacturers of laptops. The list in the second quarter of 2017 remained the same as in the previous three months. Heads the top 5 HP Inc. , Which in April-June accounted for 23.4% of the total number of laptops in the world compared to 22.8% in January-March. The company delivered about 9.3 million devices, improving the result by 8.5%, TrendForce added.

Lenovo finished with a quarterly result of 8.05 million lats, which indicates an annual decline of 2.4%. Compared to the first quarter, the increase was only 0.3%, as a result, the market share of the Chinese vendor declined from 21.2% to 20.1%.

Dell recorded the most significant growth in deliveries - by 21.3% versus January-March and by 7.4% year-on-year. As a result, Dell's market share rose from 14.3% to 16.4%. Success was promoted by tenders in North America and growth in shipments of chrome-bricks.

The fourth place was shared by ASUS and Apple: the first shipped 3.99 million laptops, and the second - 3.98 million devices. However, in terms of growth, the American corporation surpassed the Taiwanese rival: Apple increased shipments by 17.1% in quarterly terms, and ASUS - by 9.3%. As a result, the market shares of companies equaled and amounted to 10%.

Close the rating TrendForce one more representative of Taiwan - Acer. This company was the only one whose supply in the second quarter of 2017 was lower than in the first. According to experts, Acer shipped 3.22 million of its laptops, worsening the result by 3.5%. As a consequence, the vendor's contribution in percentage terms also decreased and amounted to 8% against 8.8% a quarter earlier.