From 2000 to 2007, during China’s export boom, global shipments of personal
computers grew 105 percent, with laptops accounting for 47 percentage points of the
growth. In 2009, portable computers were estimated to have accounted for the majority
of computer shipments for the first time. At the same time, China became the largest
producer of laptops, surpassing Taiwan, which had accounted for 64 percent of global
laptop production in 2002.