The data displays the global market share, by shipments, held by the leading personal computer vendors in 2017. The overall market leader in 2017 was HP Inc. with a PC market share of 21%. HP took over it's market leader position from Lenovo, which ranked the second this year. Lenovo, originally called Legend, was founded in Beijing in 1984. The company now operates in more than 60 countries and sells its products in around 160 countries. As of 2017, the PC vendor had 52 thousand employees worldwide. In 2017 Lenovo made a net profit of 530.
