Every quarter, the Canalys company publishes a report on PC sales, or more specifically the manufacturer's submissions (sold later or not). The first quarter 2020 report shows an 8% decrease in PC sales, the largest since 2016, but the worst is that during the last quarter of 2019 PC sales a 5% increase, down 13%.
The emergence of PC sales
Here we show you a graph of PC sales from 2009 to the present. The green lines represent the PC shipments by manufacturers, while the blue line indicates the occurrence of ups and downs.
As you can see, in the second half of 2015 and the first half of 2016 PC sales suffered the most, with a 12% drop in 2007. Now we're almost at the same level, in historical mathematics, too the fall is 8% year after year compared to the first quarter data of last year and, compared to last quarter, the decrease is announced even higher, at 13%.
Apple is the biggest hit, and everyone sells little except Dell
During this quarter the level of major retailers remains the same, Lenovo nest and followed by HP and Dell, but it's noteworthy that all manufacturers have seen their sales significantly lower than Dell, which managed to sell 1.1% more than before.
Apple's biggest concern for their MacBooks and their sales fell 21%, followed by HP and Acer which dropped 13.8% and 12.6% respectively. At present, Lenovo remains the best-selling manufacturer despite losing 4.4% of its sales.
Analysts blame COVID-19, but also Intel
PCs were sought early in the quarter due to Coronavirus weather, which will force many people to telecommute at home (which is why so many people buy a new PC). But disaster has also created it significant delay in production and many problems of things, it creates the atmosphere we live in now.
However, analysts also point to Intel as the main cause of the problem. Their problems in supplying processors to OEM PC manufacturers have caused so many delays, that, as you know, many have decided to cut corners and pass the competition. You already know that many manufacturers are now starting to sell their PCs amd processor, and this happens not only because of the merits of the company itself (which can be argued), but also because it has the only option to continue selling PCs unless Intel supplies them CPUs.
We've talked about this before; Intel is having a bad time, with its commercial downturn and AMD is eating its way out of bounds. It will be interesting to see how they get out of the pit and what strategy they are getting from now on.
