In the April-June 2022 period, the volume of the global PC market decreased by 15.3% compared to the same season of the previous year. In this regard, with reference to data from the analytical agency IDC reported PCMag version. In the second quarter of 2022, manufacturers put 71.3 million devices on the shelves. For comparison: a year ago this figure was 84.2 million.
According to analysts, the decline was expected after two years of market growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the market is shrinking faster than they expected. As one of the main reasons, IDC calls macroeconomic processes in which consumer demand is decreasing.
Experts do not exclude that the PC market will soon return to the indicators of the 2019 period, when there was no pandemic. In the second quarter of 2018 and 2019, manufacturers delivered 62.1 million and 65.1 million devices to the market, respectively.
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Source: Gazeta
