International Data Corporation

PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts

Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit

Personal Tech09 Apr 2024 | 6

Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending

IDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years

Edge + IoT14 Mar 2024 |

Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle'

Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 45

IDC: AI is a solution for a PC industry with a sales problem

Articulating use cases? Erm, yes but customers are captivated

Personal Tech10 Oct 2023 | 13

Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC

Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year

Personal Tech29 Aug 2023 | 8

Mac shipments slump as Apple finally bitten by glum PC demand

On the bright side, higher inventories will give 'puter makers opportunity to flee China, IDC says

Personal Tech10 Apr 2023 | 17

IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales

Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29

Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022?

Then they plunged properly like all other client devices

Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 1

Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough

Personal Tech06 Feb 2023 | 8

Broadcom's VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers

As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking

Software01 Feb 2023 | 7

By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments

But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs

Personal Tech22 Dec 2022 | 26

XaaS is taking over the datacenter and IDC says you asked for it

Comment As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait

On-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 5

PC shipments are still on the decline – unless you're Apple

Cupertino managed to buck the trend with year-on-year growth of 40%

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 9

Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share

They’re on track for a whopping three percent in 2026 – well out of the mainstream, but growing faster

Personal Tech04 Oct 2022 | 39

Wearables sales slacken as the novelty wears off

In this economy, who has $800 to spend on a watch?

Personal Tech21 Sep 2022 | 25

Switch and router sales surge, with 200/400 gigabit Ethernet kit growing fastest

Clouds are buying plenty, but there's lots of product left for the rest of us – outside Russia

Networks09 Sep 2022 | 5

Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC

Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon

Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 14

Oracle, IBM losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC

One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go.

Databases06 Jul 2022 | 5

Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

Off-Prem04 Jul 2022 | 1

PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now

Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 5

PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC

Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions

Personal Tech11 Apr 2022 | 19

IDC: Public clouds to surpass non-cloud spending this year

So long as the economy stays healthy, and supply can catch up to demand

Off-Prem01 Apr 2022 | 2

APAC region's PC market growth flattens out

COVID saw sales surge, but there's less reason to buy in the new normal

Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 |

US biz to blow $120bn on AI by 2025, says IDC

Get ready for machine-made decisions, whether you're shopping, banking, reading, working

AI + ML17 Mar 2022 | 4

Despite shortages, networking hardware market grew strongly in 2021

Any port in a storm

Networks14 Mar 2022 |

Russian conflict unlikely to harm global ICT spending, yet

But uncertainty, supply, power woes could cause trouble ahead

On-Prem07 Mar 2022 | 1

India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions

Also has more than 100 million 2G subscribers, and a tiny PC market

Networks25 Feb 2022 | 7

Do you trust your provider farther than you can throw them? Cloud priorities shifting in post-COVID world – IDC

Companies focus on 'broader' ecosystem

Off-Prem07 Feb 2022 | 7

The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC

WfH kit has all been bought, but the pressure is now on to upgrade

Personal Tech20 Dec 2021 | 56

PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing

Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid

Personal Tech09 Dec 2021 | 9

Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter

On-Prem30 Nov 2021 | 10

Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt

Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 |

Chinese buyers spending up big on security, servers, and storage, says IDC

Policies pushing local vendors help, as does huge investment in AI

On-Prem12 Oct 2021 | 1

Big iron is out of fashion as server market shifts to low-end single-socket machines

IDC says AsiaPac market growing, rest of world isn't, Dell wins on volume, and IBM on sale price

Systems10 Sep 2021 | 3

World to make 1.37 billion smartphones in 2021 says IDC – about one for every six humans

Apple's growth outpaces Android's, and 5G shipments are surging despite hefty prices

Personal Tech01 Sep 2021 | 16

Indian tech market settles into second year of coronavirus as PC and smartphone sales soar

Lighter lockdowns meant more effective manufacturing and logistics

Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 |

AI to be bigger than IaaS and PaaS combined by 2025

$500bn a year to be spent on electro-brain and supporting tech vs $400bn on cloud infrastructure

AI + ML06 Aug 2021 | 9

Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets

Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute

Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 59

Desktop PC sales bounce back – but only because of laptop component shortages

HP missed the boom for both, posted 2.7 per cent growth as market surged 13 points over 2020

Personal Tech12 Jul 2021 | 5

Chromebook boom won’t outlive COVID-19 pandemic, says IDC

Tablets also flattened as punters resume spending on real-world fun

Personal Tech24 Jun 2021 | 21

Network managers think you're coming back to the office. Why else did they go on a Wi-Fi 6 buying spree?

Q1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year

Networks10 Jun 2021 | 7

Major shift in smartphone market sees Chinese kit win the middle while Apple and Samsung skim the cream

Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’

Personal Tech29 Apr 2021 | 1

PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst

Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record

Personal Tech26 Apr 2021 | 51

Asian buyers set for security spending spree to catch up on shabby strategies

China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration

Security22 Apr 2021 | 1

Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales

Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco

On-Prem02 Apr 2021 |

Printers used to be a pricey luxury in Asian homes, then along came ... you know what

Best not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again

Personal Tech31 Mar 2021 | 4

Asian PC shipments flatlined in 2020 as global sales soared by 13% – why?

Supply chain hardships hit the region harder than most, and 2019 had already been a bumper PC-buying year

Personal Tech19 Mar 2021 | 3

Extended lockdowns to fuel 'strongest growth on record' for PCs into EMEA for Q1

Partly chalked up to someone applying a plunger to the supply chain blockage

Personal Tech04 Mar 2021 |

Now there's another thing on Earth that be can seen from space: UK lappy sales in pandemic-struck 2020

Shipments up a whopping 90+% in Q4 despite industry-wide shortages

Personal Tech16 Feb 2021 | 19

AMD, Arm, non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls

Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide

Systems10 Dec 2020 | 4

Plague, sanctions shrink Chinese smartphone sales but 5G keeps buyers in the hunt

Huawei appears to be rationing product, say analysts

Personal Tech09 Nov 2020 | 3

Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC

Including private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet

On-Prem30 Sep 2020 | 1

There’s no new normal coming for PC sales, just the boring old normal of a long, slow decline

IDC says 2020 will be a unique and beautiful snowflake as shipments pop three percent because you can't go to the movies

Personal Tech03 Sep 2020 | 15

Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined

$233bn revenue in 2019, says IDC, with the top five creaming a third of it

SaaS19 Aug 2020 | 10

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases

Personal Tech07 Aug 2020 | 8

When those new servers you ordered aren't delivered, you probably won't order any more servers - and that's why India's market has shriveled

Except for IBM’s non-x86 boxes which have posted modest growth

Systems22 Jul 2020 |