14 DAY TRIAL // The PC market enjoyed a massive boost in the last couple of years for obvious reasons, but in 2022, the sales are expected to go down substantially.
A report from Gartner suggests that PC sales are likely to decline no more, no less than 9.5 percent, with companies across the world projected to sell a total of 310 million units.
Last year, the PC market sales totaled 342 units.
The tablet industry will experience a bigger drop as well, as it’ll decline from 156 million units to 142 million devices, This means it could drop as much as 9 percent year over year.
The reasons
In case you’re wondering what’s going to cause the drop, it all comes down to the reasons that pretty much anyone can already guess.
“A perfect storm of geopolitics upheaval, high inflation, currency fluctuations and supply chain disruptions have lowered business and consumer demand for devices across the world and is set to impact the PC market the hardest in 2022,” said Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner. “Consumer PC demand is on pace to decline 13.1% in 2022 and will plummet much faster than business PC demand, which is expected to decline 7.2% year over year.”
Gartner also believes that sales of 5G smartphones in China could also decline, after the country has been leading the adoption of this technology in the last couple of years.
Phone makers will sell a total of 710 million 5G-powered phones this year, up 29 percent from the previous year
“At the beginning of the year, the Greater China 5G phone market was expected to show double-digit growth,” said Atwal. “The impact of China’s zero tolerance COVID-19 policy and resulting lockdowns have dramatically reversed this trend. Large numbers of consumers stopped buying non-essential items including 5G smartphones.”