PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes

Demand for caller PCs took a deed aft months of terms hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting planetary PC shipments fell 21 percent year-over-year successful Q3 2026. That's successful enactment with earlier reports from IDC and Omdia. It's not conscionable PCs, either - that aforesaid quarter, smartphone shipments besides hit a 14-year low.

Counterpoint linked the diminution successful PC shipments to higher constituent prices. Up until Q2 2026, PC shipments had been increasing for implicit 2 years straight. But implicit the past respective months, RAM, SSDs, and chips from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm person each gotten much expensive, starring to terms hikes connected everything from MacBooks to Raspberry Pis. C …

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