Top Tablet Manufacturers in 2012

Here are the top five manufacturers of tablets in the third quarter of 2012, as released by IDC on Monday.

1. Apple Inc.
Maker of the iPad, 14 million shipped worldwide, 50.4 percent share

2. Samsung Electronics Co.
Maker of Galaxy line, 5.1 million, 18.4 percent.

3. Amazon.com Inc.
Maker of Kindle Fire, 2.5 million, 9 percent

4. AsusTek Computer Inc.
Maker of Transformer line and Google’s Nexus 7, 2.4 million, 8.6 percent

5. Lenovo Group Ltd., 400,000, 1.4 percent

6. Others, including Barnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook Tablet, 3.3 million, 12.2 percent