Analyst firms IDC and Gartner said Monday that the PC market continues to sharply decline, as unit sales plunged between 10 and 12 percent during the first quarter. Of note, however, was Dell’s resurgence as the top U.S. PC vendor, after HP split into two business units.
IDC reported that PC sales fell 11.5 percent to 60.6 million units during the first quarter, while Gartner said that sales fell by 9.6 percent to 64.8 million units—dropping below the number of PCs sold during 2007. “There was no particular motivation for U.S. consumers to purchase PCs in the first quarter of 2016,” said Mikako Kitagawa, the principal PC analyst at Gartner, in a statement.
