Global tablet shipments amounted to 32.66 million units in second-quarter 2019, down 8.7% on quarter and 11.9% on year due to slow season, Apple's new products making little contribution to its shipments and Huawei's performance taking a hit by the US trade ban.
Taiwan's notebook shipments increased 27.5% sequentially and 11.2% on year to come to 33.53 million units in the second quarter, thanks to rising orders from vendors building up extra inventory as a precaution against the possibility of the US imposing tariffs on notebook imports.
Taiwan's handset shipments slipped 39.5% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, while compared to the same quarter a year ago, the volume dropped 23.5%.
Global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments will continue shrinking in 2019, following 2018's around 2% on-year drop. With issues such as US-China trade tensions and Intel's CPU shortages, and Lenovo and Apple having been cutting their orders, Taiwan makers are also expected to see their related shipments to be impacted.
Taiwan's notebook shipments were weaker than expected in the first quarter of 2019, down 16.3% sequentially and nearly 3% on year to come to 26.3 million units.
Taiwan-based notebook makers failed to see a boost in demand during the traditional peak season in fourth-quarter 2018, recording weaker-than-expected shipments that dipped 0.1% sequentially and 3.8% on year to arrive at 31.41 million units.
According to Digitimes Research statistics, global tablet shipments totaled 44.89 million units in third-quarter 2018, up 21.1% on quarter and 6.1% on year thanks to high season effects.
Taiwan's notebook shipments grew 4.3% sequentially but decreased 4.7% on year in the third quarter of 2018, as Intel's CPU shortages affected vendors' overall order placements.
