▲ Source Techlnsights

Shipments by vendor:

• Lenovo shipped 12.2 million units, accounting for 24% market share, down 5% year-on-year.
• HP shipped 10.3 million units, accounting for 20 % of the market, up 7 % year-over-year.
• Dell shipped 8.2 million units, accounting for 16% market share, down 10% year-on-year.
• Apple shipped 5.7 million units, accounting for 11% market share, down 30% year-over-year.
• ASUS shipped 3.8 million units, accounting for 8 % market share, down 10 % year-over-year.
• Other brands shipped 11 million units, with a market share of 21% down 2 % year-over-year.

As you can see from the data published by TechInsights, HP was the only one of the top 5 vendors to post a 7% increase in shipments, in contrast to Apple, which saw a 30 % drop in shipments. With the release of the new Macbook with the M3 series chipset, I wonder if Apple will be able to regain the momentum.

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TechInsights analysts say that while demand for laptops is still low, especially in the business market, the slower pace of decline suggests that the market has weathered the worst of it. The laptop market is slowly recovering, and with support services for Windows 10 set to end in 2025, and the update cycle coming, it will drive the market into growth in 2024.

According to a report released by Tibco Consulting, laptop market inventories began to show a healthy trend starting in Q2 this year, which became even more pronounced in Q3, with a rebound in the laptop market predicted for 2024, with annual shipment growth of 2-5%.

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According to reports, this move marks a shift in previous policies after industry complaints that this move may hit companies such as Apple and Samsung. India’s electronics ministry is now proposing to streamline import registration procedures, according to officials with direct knowledge of the discussions. However, India’s electronics ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The new “import management system” will require companies to obtain “registration certificates” instead of “licenses” as previously planned while importing laptops, tablets and PCs, one of the officials said – India’s electronics department said at a meeting on Friday The recommendation was conveyed to industry officials at a meeting.

It was previously reported that in order to promote local manufacturing, India announced early last month the implementation of licensing requirements for imported laptops, tablets and personal computers, effective immediately.

India’s previous regulations allowed companies to freely import products such as laptops. After the new regulations take effect, companies need to obtain special licenses if they want to continue selling these imported products in India.

Industry executives said that India’s implementation of the import licensing system means extending the waiting time for each product to enter the Indian market, and it is especially necessary to consider applying in advance to meet sales demand during the festival.

On August 5, due to pressure from many parties, the Indian government announced that it would postpone the import licensing measures for laptops and tablets, which will take effect on November 1 this year.

Manufacturers can continue to import laptops, tablets, PCs and server equipment until October 31 without applying for additional licenses.

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When it detects that the battery is low, Windows will force the system to shut down. But at the same time, Windows also preempts the shutdown and writes the current memory data to the hard disk so that it can be restored the next time you turn on the computer without losing your work progress. In fact, the system enters a hibernation state rather than a full shutdown.

When writing data to the hard drive, the system may control the CPU frequency at a relatively low frequency to reduce energy consumption and ensure that the process of writing data is completed, in order to prevent sudden power loss resulting in write failure.

In addition, when the laptop is overheating, it may also trigger a forced CPU downgrade, locking the CPU frequency to a lower frequency, which is more commonly 0.39GHz or 0.78GHz. After triggering a CPU downgrade, the system may also force the system to hibernate, writing memory data to the hard drive and then entering a hibernation state.

Win10 and Win11 both have similar mechanisms. However, the problem is that this mechanism of entering hibernation after CPU downclocking may be buggy, and when the computer comes back from hibernation, the CPU frequency may not be restored, but still remains at a low frequency of 0.39GHz or something like that! This leads to the situation that the CPU frequency is locked at 0.39GHz as mentioned at the beginning of the article, and the whole system is slow and laggy and cannot be used normally. In this case, even restarting the computer may not be able to solve the problem, because restarting is a hot start, which will not detect the hardware and reload the data. If Win10 and Win11 save some state data before shutdown, it is likely that even the CPU lock state will continue to be maintained after restarting.

How to solve this problem? Here are two solutions you can try.

Press and hold the power button to force shutdown and reboot
The system resumes with the state data before hibernation, which may be the cause of CPU lockup. If there is a lockup, we can try to solve it by forcing the system to shut down by long pressing the power button.

When you press and hold the power button to force shutdown, the computer will not save any data before shutdown and will also clean out some settings related to the system state. When the computer is turned on again, it will be a cold boot, the CPU lock settings will be cleared, and the frequency will be back to normal.

If you don’t want to restart your computer, you can try to fix it with ThrottleStop, a small tool developed by TechPowerUp, a famous hardware review site for DIY gamers, to monitor CPU and set some CPU-related options. In ThrottleStop, you can find the item BD PROCHOT, uncheck it to remove the CPU overheat protection, save it and the CPU frequency will probably be back to normal.

If you encounter a similar situation, you may want to try the methods in this article, and I hope Microsoft can fix this problem as soon as possible!

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The Fetion D2000 is a new generation of Fetion high-performance desktop CPU with 8 Fetion self-developed high-performance processor cores FTC663, 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set compatibility, 2.0~2.3GHz main frequency, 25W TDP power consumption, integrated rich I/O interface, and 18.7GB/s access memory bandwidth.

Feiteng said that it joined hands with Kunlun to implement the FAST BOOT mode for domestic notebooks at the BIOS level, which systematically optimizes the notebook hardware and basic software; at the same time, it assisted Kirin Software to complete the joint tuning of the operating system, and assisted users to optimize the power-on timing and suggested the direction of PBF optimization.

The PBF optimization direction is recommended to improve the boot-up speed and usage experience of domestic laptops while maintaining device functionality and user convenience.

According to the introduction, in addition to traditional PCs, all-in-one PCs and notebooks, FETRON D2000 is also applied to 5G RRU base stations, trusted terminals, high-end switches, graphics workstations and some edge-lightweight server products.

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