PC shipments see their largest drop in four years due to COVID-19

ronjor · Apr 11, 2020

Jon Fingas, @jonfingas 11 April 2020

Many suspected PC shipments would take a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, but now it’s clearer as to what the damage was. Canalys estimates that computer shipments fell a steep 8 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2020 as Chinese factories stayed shut for a while after the Lunar New Year. Intel chip shortages from a rough transition to 10-nanometer manufacturing didn’t help, either. The decline was the steepest since the start of 2016, when Canalys recorded a 12 percent plunge.
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PC shipments see their largest drop in four years due to COVID-19

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