Gartner: PC shipments in the world experienced the biggest drop in 20 years

In the third quarter of this year, 68 million personal computers were delivered worldwide. According to the research company Gartnerthis is 19.5% less than in the same period in 2021, and in general the sharpest decline in the global PC market since the time Gartner collected such data, that is, since the mid-1990s.

Sales of personal computers have been declining for the fourth quarter in a row. On the eve of its report on deliveries in the third quarter presented IDCaccording to which the quarterly drop in PC sales was 15%.

As Mikako Kitagawa, chief analyst at Gartner, notes, “This quarter’s results could mark a historic slowdown for the PC market.” Although the difficulties with the supply of components have been resolved, however, a new problem has appeared: too large stocks of PCs have accumulated, and the demand for PCs is now very small both from consumers and businesses, the expert notes.

Gartner estimates that the top 3 global PC vendors are unchanged from the second quarter. Lenovo is still in the lead with 17.1 million PCs shipped in the third quarter and occupies 25.2% of the market. In second place is HP, which shipped 12.7 million PCs. The company’s share is 18.7%. Dell closes the top three, slightly behind HP with 12 million PCs, its share is 17.7%. They are followed by Apple (8.5%), ASUS (8.2%) and Acer (6.6%).

From the point of view of the regional markets of the PC shipments in the region of Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA) most of all decreased — for 26.4%. Ms. Kitagawa attributed this to “multiple factors… including challenging macroeconomic conditions, downturns in business and consumer demand, and high inventory levels” as well as “many suppliers closing operations in Russia in the first two quarters of the year.” The second largest supply reduction was the American market – 17.3%. The Asia-Pacific market (excluding Japan) declined by 16.6%, mainly due to reduced supplies in China.

Alena Miklashevskaya