Market research firm IDC said that due to weak demand, excess inventory and a deteriorating macroeconomic environment, global shipments of personal computers (PCs) fell by 29% in the first quarter of 2023, of which Apple Inc. The hardest hit.
Worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter of this year were 56.9 million units, down from 80.2 million in the same period last year, IDC said in a report released on Sunday. The shipments continued the decline seen in the fourth quarter of 2022, when shipments fell 28.1% year-over-year.
Among the five major PC companies analyzed in the report, Apple’s shipments in the first quarter fell by 40.5% from the same period in 2022, the largest drop, and Dell ranked second with a 31% drop. Lenovo, Asus and HP are also facing shipments. The problem of volume decline.
In terms of vendor rankings, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Apple, and ASUS are the top five PC vendors.
In February this year, Apple said that sales of its Mac computers were booming amid the wave of home office during the epidemic, but in the latest quarter, its sales fell 29% year-on-year to $7.7 billion.
Linn Huang, research vice president of devices and displays at IDC, said: “If the economy is on an upward trend through 2024, we expect the market to have a lot of upsides as consumers look to refresh, schools look to replace worn-out Chromebooks, and businesses look to replace worn-out Chromebooks.” Moving to Windows 11.”
