The PC market will grow significantly this year then decline in 2022
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has published a forecast for the global personal computer market for the current and future years. Despite the global shortage of electronic components, the industry will show significant growth in 2021.
Released figures include shipments of traditional desktops, laptops and workstations. Tablets, detachable keyboard hybrid laptops, and x86 servers are not into calculations.
Analysts believe that worldwide PC shipments this year will amount to just over 357 million units. If this forecast is justified, growth in relation to last year will be at the level of 18.1%.
IDC: PC sales up 55.2% in Q1 2021 but will the good times continue?
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It has been nearly a decade since PC vendors have had it so good. The IDC reports that surging demand for PCs in 2020 have continued into 2021, with global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations up 55.2% year over year during the first quarter of 2021.
A total of 84 million PCs were sold worldwide in 1Q21, and while this was down 8% from Q4 2020, this was the smallest post-holiday-season drop since 2012, when sales declined by 7.5%.
“Unfulfilled demand from the past year has carried forward into the first quarter and additional demand brought on by the pandemic has also continued to drive volume,” said Jitesh Ubrani research manager for IDC’s Mobile Device Trackers. “However, the market continues to struggle with setbacks including component shortages and logistics issues, each of which has contributed to an increase in average selling prices.”