Global PC Shipments Crater 20% as Rising Prices Hammer Demand

Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand

Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring

"Gets worse before it gets better" — PC shipments dropped a harsh 20% in Q3, and analysts agree that we haven't yet seen the bottom

IDC and Omdia, two major analyst firms, recently released independent reports showing massive year-over-year drops in global PC shipments in Q3 2026. IDC shows a slightly rosier 20.1% decline compared to Q3 2025, whereas Omdia reports a 21.2% decline.Breaking that down, Omdia notes that desktop shipments dropped 23.5% and laptops 20.6% to arrive at the average.This decline is not normal. As IDC notes, Q3 almost always beats Q2, but this year, it…

PC Shipments Fall off a Cliff as Some Manufacturers See Numbers Drop by over Twenty-Five Percent Year over Year in 2026

PC manufacturers are feeling the hurt in 2026, with some seeing as much as a thirty percent shipment drop from the previous year while the average decline sits closer to twenty percent. In a shock to no one, neither consumers nor enterprises are lining up in droves to purchase new PCs this year. It’s no […]

PC shipments tumble over 20% in 3Q26 as chip shortages bite — top three PC vendors ship 11.6 million fewer units year-over-year

PC shipments for the third quarter of 2026 drop by 15.8 million units, with Lenovo, HP, and Dell being hit the hardest. Memory chip manufacturers estimate that the situation will not improve until 2028 or 2029, even as Acer believes that PC prices will decline by late 2027.