Global shipments of all-in-one computers (AIO PCs) will grow at a moderate pace in the coming years as they command a growing share of the overall personal computer market, market tracker Digitimes Research said on Monday. Shipments of AIO PCs, which combine monitor and PC components in a single unit, will reach an estimated 10.5 million units this year and 14 million units in 2011, according to a report released by Digitimes Research. The market researcher projected the penetration rate of AIOs in the personal computer market to grow from this year's 8 percent to 10 percent in 2011, 13 percent in 2012 and 16 percent in 2013. 'AIO PCs are welcomed by mature markets such as Japan, the United States and Europe, because consumers in these countries prefer PC models that look more advanced, ' Joanne Chien, senior analyst and director of Digitimes Research, said in a telephone interview with the Central News Agency. But PC brands apart from Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) have not yet been very active in developing AIOs, which may lead to stiff competition among Taiwan-based manufacturers for contract orders, Chien said. Pegatron Technology Corp., a manufacturing arm of Asustek Computer Inc. that was spun off earlier this year, is expected to be one of the main beneficiaries of the growing market, the report said. It will ship an estimated 2.6 million AIOs in 2011 to gain an 18 percent share of the 2011 contract AIO market, trailing only Quanta Computer Inc., the report said. 'The split will help Pegatron devote itself to contract manufacturing, and more than 40 percent of Pegatron's orders next year will come from HP,' Chien said. TPV-Inventec, a joint venture founded in 2009 by Hong Kong's TPV Technology Ltd. and Taiwan's Inventec Corp., will also increase its shipments from 900,000 units in 2010 to 1.8 million units next year, making the company the third largest AIO contractor in the coming year. HP and Levono will account for about 50 percent and 25 percent respectively of TPV-Inventec's AIO orders in 2011, enabling the company to double its AIO shipments, Chien added. 