The PC sales in the last quarter of 2022 they stayed in 65.3 million units, according to Gartner. This figure represents a year-on-year decrease in sales of 28.5%, the biggest quarterly drop since Gartner began counting its sales in the mid-1990s. Regarding the annual sales of computers for 2022, they also fell by 16.2% compared to 2021, totaling 286.2 million units.
The figures collected by IDC are not much better. This consulting firm has indicated that in the last three months of last year, 67.2 million units, a 28.1% less than in the fourth quarter of 2021. According to her, these figures are comparable to those achieved in the fourth quarter of 2018, when the market had no problems with Intel’s supply difficulties.
It is clear that the explosive growth in PC sales from the pandemic is over, but despite the latest sales declines, 2022 annual sales are still above pre-pandemic levels. Thus, IDC points out that 292.3 million computers were sold in all of 2022. However, the demand continues to worry, since the majority of users have relatively new computers, and the economic situation is worsening.
In addition, higher equipment inventory levels, which began to grow in the first half of 2022, have become a bottleneck for the PC market. Low supply of PCs caused by high demand and difficulties in The supply chain of 2021 has quickly turned into oversupply, once demand has slowed remarkably and rapidly.
The top three PC vendors remain the same. Lenovo remains first in sales with 24% of the market share. However, it has experienced its biggest drop in sales in history. The company’s equipment sales fell in all regions except Japan, and in EMEA and Latin America fell by more than 30%.
HP and Dell, second and third, have also suffered notable falls. HP fell the most in sales in EMEA, down 44% year-on-year. For Dell, the brake has been given by the weakness of demand in large companies in the second half of 2022.
The computer market in the United States fell 20.5% in the last quarter of 2022, its sixth consecutive quarter of decline, both in the consumer and business markets. In it, HP achieved first place in sales, with 26.8% of the market. Dell follows with 23.4%.
As to EMEA, the computer market has had a historic drop of 37.2% quarterly. This fall has been due to a mixture of causes: the political situation, the pressure of inflation, the increase in interest rates and a recession expected soon. In Asia-Pacific (with Japan apart), sales fell by 29.4% year-on-year, mainly due to the Chinese market.
