PC shipments in China saw a decent growth in 2025, but are expected to decline in 2026. Among the most popular vendors, Lenovo remains the leader with significantly higher PC shipments than its competitors.
PC Shipments in China Grew by 5% Year Over Year in Q3 2025, but Forecasted to Decline by 2%; Lenovo Saw Massive Annual Growth
Lenovo remains at the top of the leaderboard as always, but now it's seeing even faster growth when it comes to regions like mainland China. The company, which ships desktops and notebooks, saw a massive 14% growth year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025. However, the rest of its competitors saw a noticeable decline. Lenovo has shipped nearly 4.4 million PCs in Q3 2025 and now holds 39% of the total PC market, including both desktops and laptops.
Omdia shared the latest data on overall PC shipments in Q3 2025, which also saw a decent growth compared to the same period last year. As per the stats, the overall PC shipments are forecasted to grow by 5% in 2025 vs 2024, but are expected to decline by 2% next year. The growth was higher in the desktop segment, but the notebook segment also saw comparable growth. The overall shipments for Notebooks remain 2.5X higher than the desktops in 2025, and the gap will widen a bit more between desktop and notebook shipments next year.
That said, Lenovo remains the key player in China as well, followed by Huawei, which shipped nearly 1 million units in Q3 2025, which is 7% lower than the same period in 2024. ASUS was the only one to see no decline in PC shipments and remains at 8% market share with 0.9 million shipments. The total shipments came out to around 11.3 million, compared to 11.1 million in Q3 2024, which is a 2% growth, but when we take the combined shipments for the whole year, it comes out to be 5% due to higher shipments in the first two quarters.
2026 is expected to see a nearly 2.6% decline in growth, and the total PC shipments (desktops and laptops) should be around 40.6 million. The current growth is reported to have been driven by strong enterprise and government sales (subsidies introduced in Q4 2024), and with Lenovo aggressively pushing "AI PCs" to the market, it has attracted a lot of consumers from both corporate clients and power-users who are preparing for next-gen or intensive workloads. Smaller OEMs might need to diversify into enterprise sales and aggressively market their AI PCs to win higher shares, and that remains a key factor to win higher shares next year.
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