PCs were once the hottest tech item of the pandemic, yet these days most of the big brands are still struggling to find new homes for their aging inventory that isn’t a shelf in a distributor or retailer’s warehouse.
And so it continued in calendar Q2 when worldwide shipments of computers sold into the channel shrank 13.4 percent year-on-year to 61.6 million units, according to IDC data. This was better than theThe only top five vendor to report growth this time round was Apple - like in Q1 - with Mac sales estimated to be up 10.3 percent to 5.3 million units. Apple benefited from a weaker comparison period a year ago when Mac supply chains in China shut down,The next best performer was HP, declining 0.
It is “inflated channel and component inventory” that continues to drag down the market, the analyst said, with retailers and distributors wary of ordering more stock.