US vs China: Top Computer Brands Battling for Market Share

Lenovo maintained its position as the global leader in the personal computer market in 2025, capturing a 27.2 percent market share. According to data from Statista and Wikipedia, the company recorded 73.57 million unit shipments during that year.

HP Inc. Followed in second place with a 21.3 percent share of the market, representing approximately 57.46 million units shipped. Dell ranked third with a 15.3 percent market share.

Global Market Distribution 2025

The distribution of the top six vendors by units shipped in 2025 shows a concentration of leadership among companies from China and the United States, with additional competition from Taiwan.

• Lenovo (China): 27.2%
• HP (USA): 21.3%
• Dell (USA): 15.3%
• Apple (USA): 9.2%
• Asus (Taiwan): 6.9%
• Acer (Taiwan): 6.3%

Other various vendors accounted for the remaining 13.9 percent of the market. This data includes desktop computers, laptop computers, and netbooks, while excluding tablet computers that are not categorized as 2-in-1 PCs.

Historical Market Trends

Lenovo has held the position of global market leader every year since 2013. Between 2020 and 2024, the company’s market share fluctuated from a low of 24.1 percent in 2022 to a high of 25.5 percent in 2024.

HP’s market share during the same 2020–2024 period ranged from 19.4 percent in 2022 to 21.9 percent in 2023, ending 2024 at 21.6 percent. Dell’s share moved from 16.4 percent in 2020 to 16.1 percent in 2024.

Apple’s presence in the market grew from 8.2 percent in 2020 to 9.2 percent by 2024. Meanwhile, Asus and Acer have consistently competed for the fifth and sixth positions, with Asus holding 7.1 percent and Acer 6.9 percent of the market in 2024.

Prior to Lenovo’s dominance, Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000. During the 2000s, HP and Dell shared market leadership.

The Semiconductor Infrastructure Conflict

The competition between PC vendors is mirrored by a broader technological struggle between the United States and China over semiconductor production. In 2020, the U.S. Held 47 percent of the global semiconductor market share, driven by innovation and companies such as Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.

Despite this lead in design and intellectual property, the U.S. Increasingly outsourced actual manufacturing to South Korea and Taiwan, specifically to Taiwan’s TSMC. This reliance on foreign fabrication plants has been identified as a national security concern.

Conversely, China faced significant gaps in self-sufficiency. In 2020, China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency rate was only 16 percent, leaving the country heavily dependent on imports from the U.S., Taiwan, and South Korea.

The Chinese government has since implemented plans and incentives to boost domestic chip production to close this gap, particularly as both nations pursue dominance in chip production through 2030.