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Analysts blame Intel chip shortage for ongoing PC sales decline
There’s no letup in the declining global demand for personal computers, according to new numbers released Wednesday by market analysts Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp.
Gartner said global shipments of PCs, which includes desktops, notebooks and workstations, fell by 4.6% in the first quarter of 2019 to 58.9 million. But IDC reported the exact same number of shipments in what may well be a first as the analyst firms use different methods to calculate their numbers. IDC had a different figure in the previous quarter, however, which explains why it says shipments fell just 3%.
The reason for the decline was blamed on a shortage of Intel Corp. processors, plus pending Windows 10 migration deployments that weighed on the market, IDC said. Even so, the number of PCs shipped actually topped expectations despite the decline.
“Desktop PCs were surprisingly resilient as the commercial segment helped drive a refresh during the quarter,” Jitesh Ubrani, research manager for IDC’s Mobile Device Trackers, said in a statement.
The quarterly decline is the second in succession, and seems to have wiped out any optimism for a recovery in the PC market that rose following slight growth in the preceding two quarters.
“We saw the start of a rebound in PC shipments in mid-2018, but anticipation of a disruption by CPU shortages impacted all PC markets as vendors allocated to the higher-margin business and Chromebook segment,” Mikako Kitagawa, senior principal analyst at Gartner, said in a statement.
Hewlett-Packard Inc. came out on top as the leading PC manufacturer with a 23.2% share of the market, closely followed by Lenovo Group Ltd., which holds a 23% share, IDC reported. The companies shipped 13.5 million and 13.4 million PCs respectively in the last quarter, IDC said.
Dell Technologies Inc. came third in IDC’s list with a 17.7% market share and 10.3 million units shipped, while Apple Inc. and Acer Inc. rounded out the top five.
Gartner’s list had Lenovo just edging out HP, but the numbers aren’t too dissimilar.
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