Tablet Shipments to Decline 3.5% in 2015

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Taipei - Notebook computer shipments will grow 0.6% year-over-year in 2015 to 174.6 million units, while tablet shipments will decline 3.5% to 185.6 million units, says TrendForce. Tablets performed poorly in 2014, while notebooks did increasingly well, said Chen. Overall, 366 million mobile PCs (notebook computers and tablets) were shipped in 2014, similar to the previous year, according to TrendForce. In 2014, 2-in-l PCs accounted for 4% to 5% of overall notebooks, but that figure is expected to rise to 8% to 10% in 2015. TrendForce forecasts the penetration for the Clamshell notebook was only 9% in 2014 and will not increase further in 2015. In 2014, Google sold about 6.5 million Chrome-books, and the device's market penetration reached 4%. TrendForce forecasts Chomebook sales will increase to 8 million units in 2015.