HP, Lenovo and Dell see PC shipments continue to decline in Q3, while Apple bucks the trend

The idiosyncratic computing marketplace saw shipments proceed to chill successful the 3rd 4th arsenic request waned and proviso concatenation issues persisted, according to the information from the International Data Corporation released Monday.

Compared with this clip past year, shipments were down 15%, which is inactive good supra pre-pandemic levels, IDC found. Global shipments totaled 74.3 cardinal successful the quarter, down from 87.3 cardinal during the aforesaid play past year.

HP saw PC shipments diminution astir 28%, Dell shipments were down 21% and Lenovo 16%. Meanwhile, Apple bucked the inclination with PC shipments rising 40% successful the 3rd quarter.

AMD hinted astatine this headwind past week erstwhile the chipmaker chopped its income forecast connected Thursday for the 3rd quarter, blaming a larger-than-expected diminution successful the PC marketplace and proviso concatenation issues.

Investors volition apt beryllium watching for signs of weakness successful PC shipments erstwhile Microsoft and Intel study 3rd 4th net aboriginal this month. Microsoft is acceptable to merchandise results connected Oct. 25, portion Intel volition study connected Oct. 27.

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