Touch Screen PC Monitors Jerk Up Worldwide Shipment

Technology highlights from monitors, especially, with a 16:9 aspect ratio dominated the Worldwide PC monitor market shipments with 83.8% share, followed by 16:10 monitors.

Shipments of touch screen monitors continued to see double-digit growth across all eight regional markets in 3Q14. Western Europe was the largest market in terms of touch screen units shipped, followed by the U.S. and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan).

Worldwide PC monitor shipments totaled 33.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14), a year-over-year decline of -5.1%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker.

IDC expects worldwide shipments to remain flat with 33.5 million units forecast to ship in the last quarter of 2014.

"We found modest year-over-year shipment growth for 3Q14 in Western Europe and the U.S. – 4.4% and 4.5%, respectively – two of the largest regions for PC monitor unit shipments. IDC expects shipments in the U.S. to have another quarter of single-digit growth in the fourth quarter of 2014," said Phuong Hang, Program Director, Worldwide PC Monitor Tracker at IDC.