The global shipments of Chromebooks remained strong, with shipments still over 10 million units in the first quarter of this year. This arrives a 9 percent decrease sequentially but marking a whopping 280 percent year on year growth in terms of volume.
According to a DigiTimes report, notebook shipments were driven by the education sector back in 2020, with a significant rise due to the need for online education and work from home. In the total shipments of notebooks, Chromebooks accounted for over 60 percent of the volumes. Shipments of this category crossed over 30 million units in the year. Out of the various brands that sold these types of notebooks, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Samsung Electronics and Asustek Computer marked new quarterly shipments records in Q1 2021.
Furthermore, shipments of models powered by MediaTek‘s ARM based solutions also surpassed the 1.5 million units mark in the same quarter. The report also adds that the shipments of notebook arrived at the 57.51 million units in the first quarter of this year, which is a fall of 8.7 percent sequentially. Although, this is much better than the average sequential decline of 15 percent experienced in the recent years.
Interestingly, the robust performance in the first quarter of 2021 was primary driven by gaming and education notebooks as well as Apple’s MacBooks. Notably, Asustek and Micro Star International (MSI) saw an increased gaming notebook shipments in the first quarter while GPUs and high end mobile CPUs used in high end notebooks were facing severe shortages and a high high in pricing as well.
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