Samsung’s Chromebook shipments grew 4x in 2020, driven by the pandemic

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The demand for affordable laptops and tablets was through the roof during 2020, thanks to the pandemic. Samsung managed to
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and over 31 million tablets over the course of the whole year. Now, the South Korean tech giant’s Chromebook shipment numbers have been published.

The company managed to ship a million Chromebook devices in Q4 2020 according to market research firm Canalys. That’s a staggering 6.3x growth compared to Q4 2019. In all of 2020, Samsung managed to ship close to 2 million Chrome OS laptops, which is a 4x growth compared to 2019.

Samsung Chromebook Global Market Share Q4 2020 - Canalys


Although the South Korean firm had the highest growth in the global Chromebook market, it still has a lot of room to grow. HP was the biggest Chromebook brand in 2020 with 9.4 million shipments and a 31% market share. Lenovo shipped 6.8 million Chromebooks and acquired a 22% share of the market. Dell (15% market share) and Acer (14% market share) were ranked third and fourth, respectively, with shipments of 4.6 million and 4.3 million.

Samsung launched the Galaxy Chromebook last year, and it was the first Chrome OS-powered laptop with a 4K AMOLED screen. The company had also
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—a few months prior to that. It
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the
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, the first Chromebook in the world with a QLED screen. The new laptop also features improved battery life
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Samsung Chromebook Market Share 2020 - Canalys


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