The PC industry has had a significant upswing in 2010 after coming off 2009, which was one of the worst years ever for the industry. Intel announced its best quarter ever for Q1 2010 and Gartner has reveled higher than expected growth.

The shipment of PCs grew 27% in Q1 2010 while predictions were for 22% growth. A total of 84.3 million computers shipped for the quarter. HP remained the top shipper of PCs with 18.2% of the market.

Acer seized the second place spot with 14.2% of the market, Dell has third with 12.1% of the market, and Lenovo took forth with 8.3% of the market. Asus and Toshiba tied for fifth with 5.5% of the market each.