Global tablet shipments already surpassed those of notebooks in 2013 as the notebook market suffered a decline. But Digitimes Research believes the role of notebooks in the mobile computing device market will not be completely replaced by tablets. In the tablet segment alone, the top-2 vendors and white-box players will take up major shares in 2015. In the overall mobile computing device market, notebook vendors will continue to occupy the top positions in the top-15 brand vendor rankings.