Acer and HP unveiled the first Chromebooks powered by AMD processors this year and they’re… cheap laptops with cheap, low-power processors. If you’d been holding out for a Chromebook with a more powerful AMD Ryzen processor, it looks like you might not have to wait forever. Kevin Tofel from About Chromebooks spotted references in Chromium […]
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Smartphone shipments declines in 2018, for better or worse
Phone makers shipped about 4 percent fewer smartphones in 2018 than the year before according to reports out this week from IDC and Counterpoint Research. IDC says that makes 2018 the “worst year ever for smartphone shipments,” as measured by growth (or shrinkage, in this case). But it’s also worth looking at the possible explanations […]
CPU shortages and trade wars contributing to declining PC shipments (according to IDC and Gartner)
7 Comments on CPU shortages and trade wars contributing to declining PC shipments (according to IDC and Gartner)In what’s become a familiar set of headlines in recent years, market research firms IDC and Gartner have put out a pair of press releases showing that PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2018 were down from the same period a year earlier… and that overall PC shipments in 2018 were lower than in […]
Smartphone shipments are falling, but Chinese brands are picking up steam
Smartphone makers shipped fewer phones in the third quarter of 2018 than they did during the same period a year earlier. If that statement sounds familiar, it’s because you could say the same thing about the last four quarters, according to reports out this week from IDC and Strategy Analytics. While the two reports differ […]
IDC: Tablet shipments are down, Apple continues to trounce the competition
Tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2018 were down about 13.5 percent from the same period a year earlier according to a new report from research firm IDC. But that doesn’t necessarily spell doom for the tablet market. IDC predicts that we could see growth in the 2-in-1 space as more Windows, Chrome OS, […]
Huawei became the number 2 smartphone seller last quarter
Samsung continues to be the world’s top smartphone maker, at least in terms of shipments. But according to new reports out this week from IDC and Strategy Analytics, Apple has dropped from second to third place. It was displaced by Chinese phone maker Huawei, which shipped 54 million phones during the second quarter of 2018. […]
IDC: Smartwatch shipments could double in next 5 years
It’s usually a good idea to take claims like this with a grain of salt, but the folks at market research firm IDC think 43.6 million smartwatches will be shipped this year… and that the number could climb to 84.1 million in 2022. But the more interesting part of IDC’s prediction is that the company […]
IDC: Desktop PC shipments fell to less than 100 million in 2017
Notebook computers have been outselling desktop PCs for years, but it’s probably a bit early to put desktops on deathwatch. They’re still popular among business users, gamers, and others… and according to new numbers from IDC, it looks like notebooks only outsold desktops by 1.6x in 2017. But desktop PC shipments did fall below 100 million […]
IDC: PC shipments down for 6th year, but the market is stabilizing
Over the past decade smartphone shipments have skyrocketed, while shipments of traditional PCs have declined. In fact, research firm IDC reports that 2017 marked the 6th straight year where PC shipments declined. But there’s some good news for PC makers (and folks who want to make sure companies continue cranking out PCs): that decline wasn’t […]
IDC: Tablet shipments have declined for 3 years straight
Remember when tablets were exciting? The amount of hype that surrounding the launch of the original iPad and the first crop of Android tablets has died down in recent years (as has the average selling price of a tablet), and now research firm IDC reports that tablet shipments are down… for the 12th consecutive quarter. […]