PC demand increasing
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Thursday, 13 January 2022 11:44

PC demand increasing


Just like the old days  

Market research firms Gartner and IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that the worldwide PC market has grown again throughout 2021, as demand for traditional PCs continued during a global chip shortage.

PC market is slowing down
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 15 July 2021 11:24

PC market is slowing down


IDC and Gartner predictions

The PC market is showing early signs of its growth slowing down, after an impressive run of shipments throughout 2020.

PC market to decline in 2020
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Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:28

PC market to decline in 2020


Windows 7 boost comes to an end

A report from analyst outfit IDC forecast a decline in sales of PCs next year.

PCs still lucrative, whispers Ballmer
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Friday, 11 October 2019 10:25

PCs still lucrative, whispers Ballmer


This is not a repeat from 2009

The shy and retiring former CEO of Microsoft Steve “there’s a kind of hush” Ballmer has whispered to the assembled throngs at GeekWire Summit 2019 that PCs are still lucrative.

Gartner and IDC agree PC market is still sliding
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58.5 million in the first quarter of 2019

Beancounters at Gartner and IDC have agreed on an exact figure PC shipment for the first quarter   – unfortunately, it is pretty bleak.

Intel promises volume production of 10nm in 2019
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Low volume 10nm this year

Intel announced its Q1 2018 results where the company claimed it did rather well, increasing its revenue by13 percent to $16.1 billion. It expects 10 percent better in the second quarter compared to the same quarter last year.

ASUS ships 4.2 million notebooks in Q1 2017
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Company needs to beat the 18 million it sold last year


Asustek Computer, the world’s fourth largest PC vendor by unit sales, managed to ship just 4.2 million notebooks in the first quarter of 2017, though its profits continued to remain strong thanks to higher average selling prices (ASPs), according to sources in the upstream supply chain.