Market research firm International Data Corp (IDC) said on Monday that computer deployments are now slowing after two years of double-digit growth and are down 5.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022 worldwide.
While the decline reflects both rising costs and market saturation in some segments, IDC says it by no means represents a downward spiral. First, while there has been a decline in laptops, there has been some growth in desktops. The numbers were also higher than previous estimates.
Vendors deployed more than 80 million desktops, notebooks and workstations for the seventh consecutive quarter. IDC’s Ryan Reith said sales might have been stronger had the world not been facing geopolitical and pandemic-related issues as well as unprecedented supply chain and logistics challenges: “We have witnessed some slowdown in both the education and consumer markets, but all indications are commercial PC. “It shows that the demand for PC ‘s is still very strong. We also believe that the consumer market will rebound in the near future. The first quarter result of 22 was PC shipment volumes near record levels for the first quarter.”
IDC research manager Jay Chou said that suppressed demand is not being met, especially in emerging markets among buyers of high-end products.
Globally, Lenovo had the highest market share (22.7%) in Q1 2022, followed by HP (19.7%), Dell (17.1%), Apple (8.9%) and It was followed by Asus and Acer, both with a share of about 6.9%. These numbers reflect slower growth for Lenovo, HP and Acer, and positive growth for Dell, Apple and Asus. HP experienced the largest decline with a growth of -17.8 percent compared to the previous year, while Asus experienced the highest growth with 17.7 percent. The rankings among these five have mostly remained the same since 2021.
The only change was that Asus placed in the top five, although they drew with Acer.
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