Demand for PCs has been on the rise since early 2020. Although the growth rate has slowed down after a period of rapid growth, the PC market as a whole is still in a state of expansion. The well-known research organization IDC recently
published a report, pointing out that in 2021, the shipments of desktop and notebook computers will increase by an average of 14.8% year on year. Among them, Apple’s shipments far exceeded other PC brands, an increase of 22.1%.
According to IDC’s report, the PC industry’s total shipments in 2021 will be 348.4 million units, an increase of 14.8% compared to the full year of 2020. It is worth noting, however, that PC market shipments in the fourth quarter of 2021 only increased by 1% over the same period of the previous year to 92.653 million units. IDC analysts believe that the slowdown in PC market growth is largely due to the tight supply of many PC components, such as graphics cards and high-performance SSDs.
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A challenging logistical environment, coupled with ongoing supply-side shortages, meant that the PC market could have been even larger than it was in 2021,” according to
Tom Mainelli, group vice president of IDC’s Device and Consumer Research. “
We closed the year with many buyers still waiting for their PC orders to ship. As we move through the first half of the year, we expect supply to remain constrained, especially with regards to the commercial segment where demand is the most robust.”
As can be seen from the chart in the report, the shipments of the top 5 PC brands in the world have increased in varying degrees. The largest is
Apple with 22.1%, while the least HP has a growth of 9.3%, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer saw 14% to 18% growth.
However, comparing the data for the fourth quarter of 2020, we can see that the increase in shipments in the same period is very small, and the shipments of Lenovo, HP, and Acer have all declined, and the growth of Dell, Apple, and ASUS kept shipments positive in the fourth quarter.
