Total monitor shipments were 359,295 units in the October-December quarter of 2001, a decline of 7.4 percent over the previous quarter, according to IDC's market analyst, Reuban Tan. This resulted in an overall downturn of 23.3 percent for the year.
Due to the close correlation between sales of PCs and monitors, this decline parallels the 5 percent year-on-year fall in PC sales, which includes desktops, notebooks and Intel-based servers.
IDC predicts that 2002 will have a traditionally slow start to the year in PC and Monitor sales, and it will not be until the second quarter of the year that tender business will start to pick up again.
Vendor-wise, Samsung replaced LG Electronics at the top of the branded market by a mere 491 units, with Mitsubishi coming in third.
In the CRT branded market, LG Electronics held the highest market share, with Samsung second and Mitsubishi third.
