Intel Plays Its Chips Well

Largest PC makers manage to grow sales in the third quarter despite a chip shortage

Intel can’t make enough chips these days, but the semiconductor giant does seem to know where to sell the ones that it can.

That was evident in third-quarter sales of personal computers, as tracked by research firms IDC and Gartner. The two reported Wednesday afternoon that Lenovo, HP and Dell—the three largest personal-computer makers in the industry—all managed to grow sales in the third quarter compared with the same period last year.

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