14 DAY TRIAL // There are many market segments and, consequently, just as many leadership positions, each hardware maker striving to come as close as possible to being the top supplier of PCs, motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, memory products, storage units or whatever type of component it deals in.
Of course, when a company manages to achieve such a success, and especially when it does so for several years straight, the media is bound to hear about it. This is the very thing that has occurred now that Samsung believes it has, for the third consecutive year, kept the position of leading PC monitor seller in 2009.
The report revealing this was published, unsurprisingly, by Digitmes. Samsung cited IDC and posted sales revenues pointing towards a market share of no less than 17.9%. The market share gap to the second-place holder was even widened, to 2.5 percent in 2008 and 5.1% in 2009, compared to the 1.5% that was registered when Samsung first took top position, in 2007. Even when looking at just the LCD monitor market, its track record is almost equally impressive, having been the top player for 10 consecutive quarters, since Q3 2007.
Over the course of 2009, the PC and component supplier's total monitor sales amounted to 160.2 million, out of which an impressive 99% were liquid crystal displays. Compared to 2008, the figure was lower by about 6 million units, but this didn't affect the company's status as top vendor.
Conversely, in terms of sales revenues, Samsung's 18% share of the LCD market rose, on-year, by 1.8 percent, enabling a distance of 5.2 percent between it and the runner-up. In the end, when it came down to unit sales, the market leader's share of the overall monitor market was of 15.9 percent, with the LCD share being just as large. For comparison, in 2008, the figures were of 15.7% and 15.4%, respectively.
Samsung will no doubt be trying to maintain this state of affairs, if not swing it even more in its favor.