Forecasts indicate a decline in sales in the global market for PCs and tablets
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its latest forecast for the global market for traditional PCs and tablets. Analysts at the international company believe that growth in sales of PCs and tablets will slow next year. The company’s analysts attribute one of the reasons for the shortage of electronic components, especially semiconductors. Along چیکاو Be.
Declining sales in the global market for PCs and tablets
Experts in the world of technology and its products predict that by the end of 2021, about 344.7 million PCs will be sold worldwide. This sales of these devices will increase by 13.5 percent compared to last year. However, supply will decline by 3.4% in the current quarter. This is due to the lack of electronic components that have severely affected various segments of the IT market. Similarly, in the tablet sector, analysts are talking about a 4.3 percent increase for the whole of last year, while sales of these devices will decrease by about 8.6 percent in the last quarter of this year.
These analysts and experts, observing the sales market of these devices, as well as the possible production of required components, including semiconductor components, more precisely, chips and processors in the smartphone platform, have concluded that in the future, not only the growth of traditional PC shipments will decrease. But tablet shipments will be in the same situation and will face reduced production and supply.
It is noted that the tablet sector will experience a further decline in sales in the global market due to competition with smartphones, which are getting bigger, bigger and better quality every day. At present, the screen sizes of smartphones are even more than 7 inches in diameter, so other tablets that come with such an instrument display will most likely not be very well received. Smartphones, on the one hand, carry large screens and, on the other hand, have become very powerful. They will not be spared from this damage and decrease in sales, and their sales growth will be negative.
The analysts add that if we take into account the period until 2025, the CAGR (compound annual growth rate), ie the annual compound growth rate, according to IDC, will be something around 3.3 percent, which is the main growth by the devices. The laptop will be supplied.
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Supply constraints will continue to challenge the PC and tablet market
Jitesh Ubrani, Director of Mobility and Consumer Device Trackers at IDC, said:
“The market has surpassed PC demand due to the Covid 19 virus epidemic.” While we have seen declining consumer demand in certain sectors and markets, demand for gaming devices remains an exception, and overall consumer demand is much higher than pre-epidemic levels. In addition, the beginning of saturation in some educational markets is another reason for lower expectations in the next quarter.
“With supply chain challenges, we are seeing OEMs (manufacturers assembling devices) prioritizing commercial demand in recent months,” said Ryan Reith, program assistant at IDC Mobility and Consumer Device Trackers.
He further adds:
“Commercial dollars are often larger and more secure than the consumer and education sectors. “The recent decline in the consumer sector is expected to continue until 2022, but in the long run we expect the consumer PC market to have the same five-year growth rate as the commercial sector.”
From the three market segments, the commercial sector, the consumer sector and the education sector, it seems that the commercial sector will grow only in 2022. Part of this is due to supply, but it should also not be overlooked and easily overlooked because the consumer renewal cycle takes time.
After a strong and long wave of consumer purchases over the past two years due to quarantine or distance education, which again occurred due to the corona epidemic, which forced many to buy the device they needed. Of course, as analysts say and believe, the education sector has not been able to get all the equipment it needs, or as much as expected. However, if we examine and analyze this issue on a larger scale, we will see that there have not been many canceled orders in this field. When supply reaches demand, we expect to see an improvement in education as well. »