Gartner: Global PC Shipments Fall 22.4% in Q3 2026
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55.4 million units in the third quarter of 2026, down 22.4% from the third quarter of 2025, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.
“The impact of higher memory and storage costs is now fully reflected in PC pricing. DRAM costs surged five times year-over-year in the second quarter, and PC vendors passed those higher component costs on to customers, driving the steep decline in PC shipments during the third quarter,” said Namrata Banerjee, Principal, Research at Gartner.
“PC shipments have fallen to levels last seen in early 2023, though the market dynamics were noticeably different,” said Banerjee.“Rather than excess inventory, the decline in the third quarter of 2026 was driven by higher prices, vendor-led reprioritization of scarce components and a shift toward higher-priced configurations. The resulting reduction in the availability of lower-cost devices made replacement...
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