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The top five personal computer makers got bigger in the third quarter at the expense of smaller PC makers, which are losing share in a consolidating market. Market research firms Gartner and IDC late Wednesday said that worldwide PC shipments fell 0.5% and 1.7%, respectively. But the top five vendors all showed healthy growth in PC shipments, which means that the also-rans were responsible for the overall market decline. The top five vendors shipped more than 52 million PCs in Q3 and accounted for two-thirds of the market. PC shipments by the top five vendors combined rose 9% year over year last quarter. By comparison, shipments by all other vendors fell more than 15% in Q3. Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa says that Q3 was the first quarter where the top five vendors reached two-thirds of worldwide PC shipments. “Scale is one important success criteria for vendors to survive… Scalper1 News
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