According to a report from Digitimes, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to have shipped over seven million notebook in the first quarter of this year, which might be enough for it to snatch the first place from Lenovo.


According to Digitimes report, citing sources from the upstream supply chain, HP is expected to have shipped over 7 million notebooks which is a million more than expected earlier. According to the report, the HP managed to get more shipments thanks to flops from Acer and Asustek and earlier predictions suggested that HP would ship somewhere around six million, which is over half a million less than Lenovo.

HP notebooks are mainly outsourced to Quanta Computer, which currently supplies over 50 percent of HPs notebook shipments. HP also relies on Wistron and Compal Electronics as well as Inventec which is the main ODM for HP enterprise notebooks. In earlier quarter, Q4 2013, HP shipped 7.7 million notebooks and is expected to get a shipment drop of only 9 percent in this quarter.

The biggest hit came for Acer, as sources suggest that it has suffered a 15 percent sequential drop in the first quarter.

Source: Digitimes.com.