The PC industry is going through its worst moment in years.
The industry of computer suffered a sharp decline globally in the second quarter of 2022. After the fury they generated during the pandemic, two companies in charge of analyzing the market have ensured that this decline can be interpreted as a return to normalityas the world is torn between the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to a report revealed by the research companies IDC and GartnerPC sales plummeted between 12% and 15% worldwide, the worst quarterly decline in nine years, with a total of 72 million units sold.
The top three vendors in the global PC market all experienced a decline in PC shipments in the second quarter of 2022. The combination of HP’s decline of 27.5% and Dell’s decline of 5.2% allowed them to improve its market share, according to data published by Gartner.
Apple was the only vendor to grow in the second quarter of 2022. Photo: Bloomberg.
Lenovo PC shipments around the world declined year over year, the third consecutive quarter of decline for the company. However, Lenovo grew 2% in the global desktop PC market, in part because the company improved its supply chain in the EMEA region. HP posted a 27.5% decline in the second quarter of 2022, mainly due to a sharp drop in Chromebook shipments.
The PC market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa was the most affected in the second quarter of 2022 with an 18% decrease in PC shipments, reaching only 17.8 million units.
Despite the decline, this figure is not far below the initial pandemic level of 74.3 million in the second quarter of 2020 and is still well above the 62.1 million and 65.1 million computers sold in the second, respectively. quarter of 2018 and 2019.
“The decline we saw in the first quarter of 2022 accelerated in the second quarter, fueled by continued geopolitical instability caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, inflationary pressure on spending and a sharp drop in demand for Chromebooks,” he said. , Director of Research at Gartner.
The future of the PC market
The war in Ukraine and the general rise in the cost of energy conspired against the growth in PC sales. Photo: AP
On the other hand, not only the PC industry is facing a difficult prospect, but the video game market as well. Macroeconomic concerns, such as inflation and rising interest rates, are some of the causes that have hit the sector hard.
The war in Ukraine, the closure of internet cafes and mines in China, as well as the rise in energy and logistics costs around the world, have severely affected the sector.
Although the future of the PC market in general remains in question, the most optimistic hope that these next-generation products wake up another wave of consumptionboth among those who want to improve their work from home tool, and in the ever-thriving video game segment.
“To maintain profits while inflation drives up costs, the PC industry must raise prices despite weakening demand,” Kitagawa said.
In a parallel report, Gartner predicts that the global video game market will contract by 1.2%. In fact, they predict that consumer spending on hardware, video games and accessories will drop between 8 and 25 percent for the rest of the year.
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