Global PC market witnesses an upsurge of 9% in Q2 due to the pandemic.
Canalys says Coronavirus pandemic triggered a huge recovery of the global PC shipments for the first time since Q3 of 2010.
The second quarter of the pandemic affected world has witnessed an upsurge of global PC shipments for the first time since Q3 of 2010. The global PC market has grown by almost 9 percent from a year ago with total shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations reaching a whopping 72.9 million units, as per the report of Canalys.
Shipments of notebooks see exponential rise:
Canalys’ report states,” This has more than made up for the fall in Q1 2020, as total shipments for the first half of 2020 were up 1% over the first half of 2019.” Due to the widespread Coronavirus pandemic, sales of notebooks have grown tremendously as they become very important for students, businesses, and consumers working from home. The Canalys report states that the shipments of desktops and desktop workstations dropped by 26 percent, the shipments of notebooks and mobile workstations have grown 24 percent year on year.
HP leads the way at 18 percent growth:
With 18.1 million client PCs, HP leads the list of record shipments and it grew 18 percent over Q2 2019 mostly in the US and EMEA. HP is followed by Lenovo with 17.4 million units and 7 percent growth. In third place is Dell with shipments of 12 million units. Apple occupies fourth place with 13 percent growth and is followed by Acer at 21 percent growth.
Strategical shifts have taken place:
Research Director at Canalys, Rushabh Doshi, said,” The extraordinary demand has driven shifts in strategy across the industry. Chrome OS and AMD are making inroads into the commercial sector, while Apple MacBooks now run on ARM chips.
Canalys highlighted the global COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for this spike in growth in the Q2 of 2020.
