The overall desktop workstation market, including all-in-ones, blade, rack, and traditional desktops.
The most exciting here, is to notice that, the full year 2014, total
worldwide shipments improved significantly to 3.7 million units and 8.9% year-over-year
growth compared to annual growth of 2.9% in 2013. Emerging markets continued to
grow faster than developed markets in 2014.
The U.S. and Western Europe accounted for 63.6% of worldwide shipments with
year-over-year growth of 16.1% and 8.2% respectively.
HP remained the leading vendor
in the desktop workstation market with 44.6% share despite a year-over-year
decline of 2.7% in shipments.
Lenovo ended the quarter with 33.1%
year-over-year growth, its 21st consecutive quarter of growth, and gained 3.4
points of share compared to 4Q13.