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posted by martyb on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the Not-Dead-Yet dept.

Strong corporate desktop sales limit the decline of the PC market

Gartner and IDC have both published their quarterly reports on the size of the PC market in the first quarter of 2019, and they've both agreed: about 58.5 million systems were shipped.

[...] Both Gartner and IDC say that there's continued influence from the shortage of Intel processors, caused by the company's long-delayed transition to 10nm manufacturing. That situation leaves Intel's 14nm manufacturing facilities overburdened. Gartner analysts said that these concerns disrupted the growth seen in the second quarter last year, as the delays prompted Intel to focus on higher margin products, with PC vendors following suit. IDC similarly cited the shortage of Intel chips at the low end as partly to blame for the market decline. To the extent that low-end chips were available, the PC companies seem to be favoring putting them in Chromebooks rather than Windows machines.

Both firms also say that smaller PC vendors were more affected than larger ones, suggesting that Intel is giving priority to its biggest customers.

Countering this effect somewhat was stronger than expected commercial desktop sales, as companies continue their Windows 10 refresh cycle. However, Gartner's analysts feel that this may have peaked. Going forward, greater adoption of AMD's processors is expected to reduce the impact of supply constraints.

Major OEMs "sourcing alternative CPUs from AMD" to counter Intel slump

"The supply constraints affected the vendor competitive landscape as leading vendors had better allocation of chips and also began sourcing alternative CPUs from AMD," Mikako Kitagawa, senior analyst at Gartner says. "The top three vendors worldwide were still able to increase shipments despite the supply constraint by focusing on their high-end products and taking share from small vendors that struggled to secure CPUs."

[...] China is reportedly sick and tired of PCs at this point, and Latin America experienced a huge 16.6% decline in PC shipments during the period reportedly due to political and economic instability. Only Japan is said to have experienced any growth in the market at all, with everyone else refusing to upgrade old systems.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @01:30AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @01:30AM (#829575)

    Phones and Chromebooks. They are killing the expensive, clunky PC.
    Microsoft has only itself to blame.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 15 2019, @03:21PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday April 15 2019, @03:21PM (#829867) Journal

    A Phone is used for calling people. What you're talking about is a "smart phone" also known as a tracking device. A Chromebook is quite literally a dumbed down PC. https://imgflip.com/i/29o1n7 [imgflip.com] You don't have a network connection, most of your apps don't work. Quite literally everything you do, can be, and probably is snooped on in some fashion by Google. Not so much different than Windows 10, but hey, at least your Windows 10 PC works just fine without an internet connection after initial setup. You will not be able to use Optical Disc Drives with your chrome book. Games, will not work. Ok, sure, those Facebook, HTML/Flash games probably work, and at which point I highly recommend you get a Chromebook. Since, you're probably their target audience.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @03:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @03:26PM (#829869)

      I found a song you might enjoy playing on your PC after you get JACK, or ALSSA, or OSS, or whatever we are supposed to use now, working.
      Oh sorry, it's a video, you may have to install a non-free codec on your system, depending on your distribution:

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw [youtube.com]