after he totted up a third straight quarter of growth following several woeful years in the sector.in its latest report that the PC market grew 3.4 percent year-over-year in the second calendar quarter - similar to the growth seen in theand the fourth quarter of last year. Laptops and other mobile PCs led the pack with four percent annual growth while desktop shipments ticked up just one percent.
Brand-by-brand, most grew by low to mid-single digit percentages, such as Lenovo, HP, and Apple. Asus, however, saw the biggest growth compared to Q2 of last year at a whopping 17.3 percent. Meanwhile, Dell shrunk slightly at -2.4 percent. "The quarter culminated with the launch of the first Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon processors and more clarity around Apple's AI strategy with the announcement of the Apple Intelligence suite of features for Mac, iPad and iPhone."PC shipment figures for Q2, and agreed the market had grown by about three percent. In its view, Q2 was able to keep up the pace thanks largely to a commercial sector refresh, rather than from individual consumers.