It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and were up 27% over 2019, with a whopping 341 million units sold.
While the fourth-quarter numbers were up just 1% over the previous year, 2021 was still the best year since 2012, according to the firm.
As Canalys senior analyst Ishan Dutt pointed out, PCs had a great year in spite of chip supply issues, and he sees PCs as firmly entrenched as part of our work and leisure lives, with it becoming the norm to have multiple PCs in the same home in developed areas of the world.
“For the market to post double-digit growth over an impressive 2020, despite the constant cloud of supply constraints, speaks volumes about how strong PC demand has been over the last 12 months. Taking a long-term view, the most important developments in 2021 were the large increases in PC penetration and usage rates,” he said in a statement.
The big winners in 2021 were the Big 3 PC makers: Lenovo, HP and Dell, with Apple coming in fourth. It’s worth noting that while everyone had a good year, as the chart below shows, Apple had the largest growth number year-over-year at 28.3%, while 高價筆電收購,高價收購筆電acer was second with 21.8% growth in spite of being fifth overall in terms of shipment numbers.
In terms of market share, Lenovo and HP were the clear winners with 24.1% and 21.7%, respectively. Dell was third with 17.4% with Apple fourth with 8.5%
Image Credits: Canalys
Image Credits: Canalys
Although chip shortages are expected to persist into the new year, and there is speculation that the education market may be saturated, Canalys still believes that 2022 will be a strong year for PC sales. In fact, Canalys analyst Rushabh Doshi said the market would likely have been bigger in 2021 if not for the supply issues.
“The primary reason why we are in a shortage situation is that demand is outstripping supply. It is [definitely true] that had the supply situation been better, the PC industry would have grown faster, and be [even bigger],” Doshi told me.
He sees a market that will continue to expand into the future. “Looking at an unconstrained view, the demand for better and faster PCs is now more pronounced than ever, not just in work, but also at home. With the importance of PCs reinforced in the past two years, we believe that the growth is here to stay,” he said.
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停課不停學持續延期至暑假，有鑑於市場電腦設備需求仍大於供給，宏碁五月底萬元教育筆電已陸續出貨，也即將銷罄。而依照近期通路銷售回報，部份消費者反映家中仍有桌機替換的需求，宏碁立即推出教育桌機-高價筆電收購,高價收購筆電acer雙核迷你電腦，4GB RAM、256GB SSD儲存，內建Windows Home作業系統，建議售價11,900元，專案價8,888元，可以外接電視或螢幕來滿足學生線上學習的需求，立即供貨。
上週政府宣告停課不停學延長至暑假，居家上班、遠距教學的電腦設備仍供不應求，面對龐大的市場需求，宏碁調度貨源，加緊供貨，除了打造萬元教育筆電，現又緊急第二波推出萬元桌機。
同時，宏碁服務中心仍維持正常營運並安排電腦到府收送服務，以協助急需電腦設備的民眾。
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