According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, laptops, and workstations, were in the first quarter of 2022. It fell 5.1% but beat previous forecasts.
Moreover, the PC market ended two years of double-digit growth, and while the first-quarter decline was a change in momentum, it didn’t mean the industry was in a downward spiral, IDC said.
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Furthermore, supply chain and logistics remain challenging, but suppliers still shipped 80.5 million PCs in the quarter. In the first quarter of 2022, global shipments exceeded 80 million for the seventh consecutive quarter, a phenomenon not seen since 2012.
“We shouldn’t focus on the year-over-year decline in PC sales because that’s to be expected,” said Ryan Reith, vice president of IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Device Tracking team. “We should focus on the PC industry as a whole, in logistics and supply chain are still hindering, along with geopolitical and Covid-19 challenges.
In this case, shipments still reach more than 80 million units. We have seen slowdowns in the education and consumer markets, but all the data shows that demand for commercial PCs is still very strong.
We still believe that the consumer market will recover again in the near future. And, the data for the first quarter of 2022 shows that PC shipments are close to the record for the first quarter of the same period. level.”
Besides, the ranking of the top five vendors in the market remains unchanged in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Lenovo still holds the top spot with a 22.7% market share, followed by HP, Dell, and Apple, with Asus and Acer tied for fifth in the first quarter of 2022.
Dell, Apple, and Asus were the only top suppliers with year-over-year shipment growth. Laptops declined year-over-year, while desktops grew slightly due to ongoing supply chain shortages and a challenging comparison with a strong first quarter.
Jay Chou, research manager, Worldwide PC Monitor Tracking Systems at IDC, said: “While some markets are slowing due to saturated demand and rising costs, we still see a silver lining in a market that has reached an inflection point of slowing growth.
In addition to business spending in the PC market, in the early days of the epidemic, there were still some emerging markets that were underappreciated, and high-end consumer demand continued to grow.”
