"The US market saw a steep decline, which offset the generally positive results in other regions," Kitagawa added. Hong Kong-based Lenovo grabbed the second spot in the global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2017 with a market share of 22 per cent, followed by Dell with a market share of 15.2 per cent. Lenovo had moderate growth in EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions, but shipments declined in North America. In the third quarter of 2017, HP Inc. had 21.8 per cent market share while Lenovo registered 21.4 per cent in terms of PC shipments. PC shipments surpassed 262.5 million units in 2017 which is a 2.8 per cent decline from 2016 and the 13th consecutive quarter of declining shipments.