The PC market just had another big year thanks to pandemic demand

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The PC market grew for the first time in a decade in 2020, when the Pandemic began to force people to work and learn from home. The worldwide PC market has grown again throughout the year, as demand for traditional PCs continued during a global chip shortage, according to research from bothGartner andIDC.

In the year 2021, there were nearly 340 million PCs shipped. In 2020 the numbers were already unprecedented. The figure is up nearly 15 percent.

Jitesh Ubrani, a research manager at the International Data Corporation, said that the PC has been a return to form. Consumer need for PCs in emerging markets and global commercial demand remained strong during the quarter. The PC market could have been even larger than it was in 2021, according to Tom Mainelli, an executive atIDC.

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Worldwide PC market shipments for 2021.

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The PC market will be shipped in 2021.

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The highest shipment volume of PCs since 2013 was seen in 2021. According to Mikako Kitagawa, research director atGartner, annual PC shipment volumes are not expected to decline to pre-pandemic levels for at least 2 years.

The fourth quarter in the US was hit by supply chain issues and a collapse in demand for Chromebooks, which was a negative for the PC market. This could mean that the unexpected PC growth we have seen will not continue this year.

The PC market has been revived for two years. Microsoft launched Windows 11 last year after declaring that the PC is back after a big jump in usage. Expect to see more new PCs in stores soon, as the new laptop chips from Intel andAMD were just launched at the Consumer Electronics Show.