Memory Prices Are Tanking PC Shipments, But There's A Surprise Silver Lining
Look, we all know what time it is and so whenever a market research firm releases a report on the state of PC shipments, we pretty much know the gist of it. So it goes again, with Omdia's latest reporting highlighting yet another quarterly decline in combined desktop, laptop, and workstation shipments, though hidden in the newest gloom and doom status update is a silver lining, albeit a small one.
We'll get to that, but first let's cover the numbers. According to Omdia, PC shipments fell 3.6% year-over-year to 65.7 million units in the second quarter of 2026, continuing a trend of market slumps we've been tracking all year long. Taking laptops out of the equations, desktops and workstations fell a little less sharply, declining 1.3% to 13.9 million units, while laptops slid 4.2% to 51.7 million units.
Those figures at face value are not all that alarming, but that's...
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