The global PC market, excluding tablets and Chromebooks, has grown in the second quarter of 2021 over both the previous year and the previous quarter, according to data from Canalys and Gartner – although the two research firms slightly disagree on the extent.
Both firms had similar numbers for total worldwide device shipments this quarter, as Canalys went with 70.75 million and Gartner stated 71.63 million. A discrepancy of fewer than one million units.
However, the companies offered different perspectives on what that meant in terms of market growth.
Canalys’ data showed that the number of PCs shipped worldwide increased by 6.9 percent, up from 66.2 million, over the same quarter last year, and by 0.5 percent over Q1 of this year.