Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) Third-quarter shipments of PCs from Taiwan in 2023 declined more than 18 percent compared with 2022, according to U.S.-based market advisory firm International Data Corp. (IDC).
Taiwan-based PC makers shipped 614,000 units to consumers worldwide between July and September, a year-over-year drop of 18.6 percent, IDC said in a report released Tuesday.
According to IDC Taiwan Senior Analyst Emma Liu (劉伊菡), shipments continued to be blunted by inventory adjustments amid a weaker-than-expected peak season in the first half of the year.
Notebook suppliers recorded the steepest year-over-year decline, with third-quarter shipments down 30.3 percent compared with 2022, IDC said.
However, shipments of desktop PCs fell only 2.3 percent, mainly due to demand from "do it yourself" consumers, IDC added
While fourth-quarter shipments are forecast to continue to decline, the year-over-year drop is anticipated to moderate to 1.3 percent, according to Liu.
Looking ahead, the local PC industry is forecast to return to growth in 2024 with support from artificial intelligence-equipped devices and the expected release of Intel Corp.'s next-generation central processing unit, Meteor Lake, IDC said.
With the anticipated increase in demand, annual shipments are forecast to rise 1.9 percent next year compared with 2023, IDC added.
Worldwide, PC shipments declined 7.6 percent from a year earlier to 68.2 million in the third quarter of 2023, according to IDC.
IDC said that Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. took fifth place in the global PC market after shipping 4.9 million units, down 10.7 percent from a year earlier, and accounting for 7.1 percent of the total worldwide shipments.
IDC said that Asustek's third-quarter market share fell from 7.4 percent over the same period of last year.
China's Lenovo was the top PC vendor in the third quarter after shipping 16.0 million units to take a 23.5 percent share, ahead of U.S.-based HP Inc. (13.5 million units, 19.8 percent market share), Dell Technologies (10.3 million units, 15.0 percent) and Apple Inc. (7.2 million units, 10.6 percent), according to IDC.
