Shipments of PCs and tablets will decline in 2022 and again in 2023, before starting to grow again, the International Data Corporation said in a forecast released Thursday. IDC expects PC shipments to decline 12.8% and tablet shipments to decline 6.8% this year. It expects a decline of another 2.6% in 2023 across the two categories before shipments begin to increase again in 2024.
“Inflation, a weakening global economy, and the surge in buying over the past two years are the leading causes for the reduced outlook,” according to IDC’s report.
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Shipments have been down this year. In July, IDC reported that second quarter shipments of PCs were down 15.3% compared to the second quarter of 2021. In 2021, PC shipments reached their highest levels in 10 years. Despite the decline this year, shipments are still above pre-pandemic levels.
IDC counts desktop computers, notebooks and workstations as PCs.
