The five largest notebook companies reduce their sales
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The COVID-19 continues to do its thing in a world that runs at half gas and that has not only seen its pace of life slow down, but also companies. This has had a special impact on the electronics and computing sector, limiting notebook production.
Top five notebook vendors cut sales
The news this time starts from the hand of Ditimes Research, which records a decrease in sales and shipments of the largest brands of notebooks and notebooks on the market. This sinking varies between almost 40% and 38% annually in the month of February and is that the assembly lines have 90% their centralized production in China. This has caused a serious alteration with the spread of the coronavirus not only in this country, but internationally.
Among the top five brands, only Dell and Lenovo shipped more than a million notebooks in February. Dell, which has kept its original design and manufacturing partners working during the lunar new year festivities, has seen a reduction in sales second only to that of Lenovo and Asustek. Thanks to this, it has been the best-selling brand for the second consecutive month.
Lenovo's production lines at Hefei have resumed production and are at a rate of 60% allowing their shipping rate to be above average. HP (Hewlett Packard) instead was not so lucky. With no work plan in place for the lunar new year and with most of its production lines in the Chinese Chongging region, where regulations to resume production are stricter, it has experienced a drop in shipments in February of more than 50%
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The three largest companies have suffered a joint decrease of 42% in their shipments in February. Quanta has suffered the biggest drop of the three and its recovery at normal production rate is much slower than that of its competitors. Although the assembly, manufacturing and design chains of most of these companies are expected to be fully operational in March, a shortage of electronic components may result in production cuts in some sectors and pose a problem for notebook production.
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