PC vendor Acer Inc (宏碁) last quarter ranked first in the global Chromebook market, climbing from No. 4 in the same period of 2020, as it weathered an industry slump better than its rivals, International Data Corp’s (IDC) latest statistics showed.
Acer shipped 1.3 million Chromebooks in the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, falling 43.3 percent annually from 2.2 million units, IDC said.
That gave the company a 26.3 percent market share for the quarter.
Dell Technologies Inc was second with 1 million units, a 63.6 percent decline from 2.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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Micro-Star International Co (MSI, 微星科技) yesterday said it has canceled plans to attend next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, possibly making it the first Taiwanese firm to pull out of physically attending the annual event due to concern over COVID-19.
MSI became the latest company to join several global brands in scrapping plans to attend the CES show as the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spreads throughout the US.
Earlier, Google, Intel Corp, General Motors Co, Amazon.com Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter Inc, Pinterest Inc, Lenovo Group Inc (聯想) and AT&T Inc announced that they had canceled attending