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 |
Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei Databases13 Jul 2020 | 1
Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards Supply chains are working again Personal Tech10 Jul 2020 | 23
By emptying offices, coronavirus has hastened the paperless office Analyst predicts seven-football-fields-per-minute printing plunge Personal Tech19 Jun 2020 | 95
PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities On-Prem14 Apr 2020 | 12
India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019! The nation is already well and truly routed, and telcos have new taxes to pay Networks27 Mar 2020 |
Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold Yep that's our old friend Earworn Wearables by another name Personal Tech11 Dec 2019 | 5
What goes up must come down, and that applies to the server market in Q2 too Canada and EMEA see growth. As for the rest of the world... Systems05 Sep 2019 | 6
Enterprise hardware makers cry out as hyperscalers clip infrastructure spending Still said to be worth around $66.9bn in 2019 On-Prem21 Jun 2019 | 1
IDC: SANs and filers still alive and kicking... and cloud providers have capacity-stuffed tummies, apparently Latest storage tracker's out Storage08 Mar 2019 |
Even Windows 10 can't save the PC market as chip shortages, Brexit uncertainties bite Consumers pinch pennies while Brit biz tries to get the budget spent before you-know-what Personal Tech30 Jan 2019 | 31