Coronavirus leaves behind a spectacular line of blood, where near it a sad harvester causes havoc across the continent. No one escapes the disease, it is a matter of time that it eventually reaches all corners of the globe, and technology, which is one of the only branches to deal with the existing misery we will face in the years to come.
According to sources, COVID-19 completely crippled the sale of PCs, both metals and implements, showing fears of infection as a virus in itself and already in the population: -30% worldwide.
Provisioning problems, PC sales problems, new products are delayed
Technology within the PC industry does not escape the traditional supply chains, where it relies heavily. A two-month Chinese hiatus means the giants love it Foxconn they are forced to stop production and the world's largest country and the heart of manufacturing say it is good for their factories to save the lives of their workers.
For the first time since January, China has not registered COVID-19 cases and work is slowly returning to its rights, but even though production volume is slowly recovering, the problem is reaching the West, where we have not yet passed the worst. .
Productivity is absurd when you don't have the need for your product, China's internal consumption is high, but it's funny in comparison to the rest of the world, so the Asian giant will have to adapt to the situation that it already has and that it is now globalizing.
North America and Europe are blocked, producers and distributors are at risk
Companies like Amazon have already announced that they will only ship delivery products daily until April 5 (for now). These steps have been taken by other companies, which leave the PC market inert, directly affecting the sales of manufacturers, who see their profits fall dramatically.
The best example is ASUS, which already measures the fall in sequence -40% of your earnings in the first quarter. The problem is that we are not the worst transmission in Europe and the American continent has already started with the disease, with governments now undermining the virus and will eventually fail as the last three economies and the first one did. of the world.
Traders are expected to continue for at least six months, when after summer they can start picking. COVID-19 is taking lives, now in all economies, and can end up wiping out the producers that have not competed yet. The question is, Who will survive and who will end up out of the industry? And how will the PC industry get rid of all this?