Notebook PC: Global Forecast, Value Chain Analysis, and Opportunities and Challenges
The global notebook PC market has experienced sluggish growth due to the maturity of the market as well as competition and threats from Smartphones and tablets. Amid continuing declines, notebook PC brands have continued to enhance hardware specifications, while rolling out niche products such as lightweight and gaming models to increase profit margins. After Japanese vendor Sony’s withdrawal, Toshiba also pulled out of the market. Unlike the Japanese notebook PC market, competition in China has intensified as Chinese mobile phone leaders Huawei and Xiaomi launched their own-branded notebook PCs. In 2017, worldwide notebook PC market declined eased up thanks to commercial PC replacement demand; however, the industry still lacks long term growth momentum as replacement demand in the consumer market remains weak. This report analyzes current status and future development of the worldwide and Taiwanese notebook PC industries while looking into key issues facing them.
1. PREFACE
2. THE NOTEBOOK PC INDUSTRY
2.1 Definition and Scope
2.2 Industrial Development
2.2.1 Product Lifecycle
2.2.2 Worldwide Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value
2.2.3 Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value
2.3 Notebook PC Industry Value Chain
2.3.1 Key Players in the Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream Segments
2.4 Outlook for the Notebook PC Industry
2.4.1 Global Industry Shipment Volume and Value Forecast
2.4.2 Taiwanese Industry Shipment Volume and Value Forecast
2.5 Highlights of the Taiwanese Notebook PC Industry
2.5.1 Manufacturing and Production
2.5.2 Product Developments
2.5.3 Opportunities and Challenges
APPENDIX
2. THE NOTEBOOK PC INDUSTRY
2.1 Definition and Scope
2.2 Industrial Development
2.2.1 Product Lifecycle
2.2.2 Worldwide Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value
2.2.3 Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value
2.3 Notebook PC Industry Value Chain
2.3.1 Key Players in the Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream Segments
2.4 Outlook for the Notebook PC Industry
2.4.1 Global Industry Shipment Volume and Value Forecast
2.4.2 Taiwanese Industry Shipment Volume and Value Forecast
2.5 Highlights of the Taiwanese Notebook PC Industry
2.5.1 Manufacturing and Production
2.5.2 Product Developments
2.5.3 Opportunities and Challenges
APPENDIX
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Stages of Notebook PC Product Lifecycle
Figure 2: Global Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value, 2013-2016
Figure 3: Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value, 2013-2016
Figure 4: Global Notebook PC Industry Value Chain
Figure 5: Global Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value Forecast, 2017-2020
Figure 6: Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value Forecast, 2017-2020
Figure 1: Stages of Notebook PC Product Lifecycle
Figure 2: Global Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value, 2013-2016
Figure 3: Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value, 2013-2016
Figure 4: Global Notebook PC Industry Value Chain
Figure 5: Global Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value Forecast, 2017-2020
Figure 6: Taiwanese Notebook PC Shipment Volume and Value Forecast, 2017-2020
