Lenovo Group Limited’s (LNVGY) COO Gianfranco Lanci said chip supply shortage is limiting PC sales, according to The Register. He said that global PC market shipments could have grown 7% to 8% in the third quarter if not for the CPU supply shortage. According to Canalys, global PC shipments rose 4.7% YoY (year-over-year) in the third quarter.

Canalys said that the world’s largest PC vendors Lenovo and HP had an advantage over smaller vendors as Intel gave priority to them. Hence, the two reported their best third-quarter performance so far. Their PC shipments rose 7.2% and 8.5% YoY in the third quarter. Probably, that is one of the reasons why Microsoft introduced the AMD Ryzen powered Surface laptop.