Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Businesses heading for the Windows 7 escape hatch and US retailers panic-buying ahead of the next round of trade tariffs helped PC shipments rise globally in Q3 at the fastest rate in seven-and-a-half years.
This is according to sales-in figures collated by number-cruncher Canalys: 70.9 million desktops, notebooks and workstations were estimated to have made their way into the channel, up 4.7 per cent year-on-year, the highest growth since Q1 2012.
On the global stage, the biggest spike was reported in Japan, where businesses are refreshing their PC estates before Microsoft pulls the plug on extended support for the venerable operating system, scheduled for January.
Preparations for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and the hike in the country's consumption tax from 8 to 10 per cent – which kicked in on 1 October – also kept the sales dial swinging upwards. Shipments in the region went up 63 per cent to 4.5 million.
Over in the US, sales were up 3 per cent on a busy back-to-school period and PC vendors loading up the channel before tariff-happy US President Trump imposes yet another trade duty on Chinese imports. The additional 10 per cent levy due in December covers $300m worth of goods. Canalys estimated this would equate to a $37bn tariff on notebooks and tablets.
Shipments in EMEA were up just 2 per cent, and "uncertainty over Brexit and its outcome restrained demand", said the analyst. There was some apprehension among businesses about investing for the long term, it added.
[...] Lenovo was up 7.2 per cent to 17.3 million units; HP was up 8.5 per cent to 16.7 million; and Dell was up 5.2 per cent to a little more than 12 million. Apple was fourth with 5.376 million shipments and Acer was barely up, 0.8 per cent, to 4.9 million PCs.
"The PC market high is refreshing," said Rushabh Doshi, research director at Canalys. "However, there is a limit to how quickly leading vendors can ramp production."
He added: "Intel remains a bottleneck, with pressure on its 14nm CPU supply not likely to see improvement until Q1 2020."
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 16 2019, @06:49PM
That is what the president's tweets are. Should be illegal to profit from this, but, you know, we elect an equally corrupt congress to match.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday October 17 2019, @05:53PM
Am I the only one having trouble to parse the headline?
Maybe I should drink a Brexit Shake. Trump Europe seems to have several. Although maybe they are too expensive because the US tariffs them. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.