Laptop makers see shipments decline year-over-year

DigiTimes reports that as a group, the sales of the top 5 laptop vendors rose sequentially in August 2017, but were down versus the same month the year before. The site doesn't provide a lot of figures but notes sales of consumer laptops struggle due to the lack of new innovations. The enterprise segment is showing a bit more life, but overall the figures still aren't that good.

Hewlett-Packard (HP), which performed strongly in the 12 months prior to August, only had a single-digit percentage on-year shipment growth in August. Lenovo returned to number two, but its shipments went down by over 10% on year.

Dell achieved on-year growth in August shipments thanks to stable demand from the enterprise sector. Asustek Computer and Acer both saw an increase of over 30% on month in August shipments, but Asustek had weaker output than in August 2016.