Downturn in the global PC market will continue this year. At least, this opinion of the staff of the analytical company International Data Corporation (IDC), which prepared a new report.
IDC report , dedicated to the PC market, says that PC shipments this year will fall by about 6% compared with 2013 year, when supplies were reduced from the level of 2012 by 9.8%. Overall, the results for 2014 in the world order will be shipped 296.3 million against 315.1 million a year earlier. And by 2018, according to analysts IDC, deliveries will be reduced to 287.3 million PCs per year. A large part of the supply would be in emerging markets. And in Western Europe gradually recovering demand for computers and laptops. It is possible that the recovery in demand due to the cessation of support for desktop operating systems Windows XP, due to which many people were forced to move to other current versions of Windows and buy new computers to replace outdated.
Analysts say that now the tablet market saturation is observed that the positive impact on the PC segment. But at the same time, the long-term transition to mobile and cloud technologies have a negative impact on the supply of computers.
The downturn in the PC market primarily affect manufacturers. Thus, the Japanese Sony Corporation has sold its manufacturing business notebook VAIO local company Japan Industrial Partners Inc because it is unprofitable. May follow her example and the South Korean company Samsung, which is now virtually has no attention to the computer market, focusing on the issue of mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones.