The PC market is growing by 15% per year
It is true that both Gartner and IDC have only provided preliminary sales results for 2021, but both companies are consistent that the market is still growing very dynamically.According to Gartner's estimates, less than 10%, and according to IDC by 14.7%.However, you can see the first symptoms of slowing down sales in traditionally the best 4.quarter of the year.According to Gartner, sales were 5%lower, and according to IDC it increased by 1%.The differences seem quite big but it is also a matter of very preliminary results, which can ultimately differ by up to several million pieces.
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And since we are talking about numbers, in 2021 about 340-349 million computers went to the market, this is the best result since 2012 when sales reached similar levels.It was better in history only in 2011 when over 360 million devices were delivered.So it seems that we are at the tops and it can be hard to pierce this level, the more that the pandemic demand for new computers can slowly run out.The next quarters will certainly be very interesting in this respect.Notebooks are currently over 80% of all the sale of personal computers, about 275 million pieces, while desktop computers about 70 million.This is probably not surprising anymore.
As for the largest computer manufacturers, there is no surprise here either.The first three have been unchanged for a long time.Lenovo is the leader, which sold over 80 million computers last year and maintained its market share.In second place we have HP, which lost a bit in terms of shares, but still increased sales by over 9%.Dell is already quite clearly, because with a result of just over 59 million it has a market share of 17%.Just outside the podium there is Apple, which recorded another great year, increasing sales by 22%.However, even if this dynamics remained in the coming years, it is still difficult to expect a gigant from Cupertino to get on the podium.The leader among other companies is Acer with sales at a level of less than 24 million pieces, which ASUS tramples on the heels.The data in the table below is provided in thousands of pieces.
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The first swallows to improve access to components
If the PC market is to continue to grow, the availability of components must undoubtedly improve.According to the latest analyzes of Trendforce, this is actually happening.Even if this year the most important components such as processors or graphics cards will not deeper, because the supply is still limited, the other elements of modern computers look better and better.The availability of DDR5 memory and smaller chips used to manage integrated circuits on PCBs, with which there has been a problem recently.We don't have good news for it for those willing to buy a smartphone.This year, we expect problems with the availability of 4G modems, touch screens and display controllers.You have to wait even nearly 40 weeks from ordering for these parts.However, everything is going to a better one and there is a chance that in 2023 the situation will return to normality.
