2 months
US President Joe Biden tasked government agencies to look into the creation of the digital dollar, joining more than 100 countries that are already exploring or piloting programs with their own central bank digital currency for th...
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4 months
The IDC has released their estimate of the worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktops, notebooks, and workstations), and has announced that the PC market has managed to maintain their pandemic-induced growth spurt into anoth...
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7 months
2020 was a bumper year for PC manufacturers, due to the Work from Home movement, but the return to work push in 2021 and chip shortages led us to expect that the good times will be over for hardware companies. Today Strategy Analy...
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10 months
Both Chromebooks and Windows Laptops have seen a massive boost during the pandemic, but widespread component shortages are forcing laptop OEMs to choose their preferred platform. In Q2 2021 12.3 million Chromebooks were shipped, u...
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1 year
The IDC reports that the traditional PC market (which excludes detachable tablets and slate table) continued to grow gangbusters in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) market, with the 4th quarter of consecutive double-digi...
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1 year
It has been nearly a decade since PC vendors have had it so good. The IDC reports that surging demand for PCs in 2020 have continued into 2021, with global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstati...
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1 year
One of the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a resurgence of the PC market, due to the need to work and learn from home. Canalys reports this has resulted in the strongest growth in the PC market since 2010...
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1 year
Many believed the iPhone would kill off the PC, and for more than a decade, this appeared to be true, with PC sales peaking at 300 million units in 2008 and slowly drifting down since, hitting a low of around 250 million in 2019. ...
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2 years
The global COVID-19 pandemic has continued to shape the PC market, as evidenced by analyst company Canalys’s Q3 2020 report on the PC market (which for them includes tablets and Chromebooks). They found the total PC market (...
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2 years
Two years ago we were resigned to the slow decline of the PC market, to be replaced by simpler mobile computing solutions such as tablets and smartphones. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of that, with sustained dou...
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2 years
The IDC has confirmed this morning’s report from Canalys that Huawei has shipped the largest number of smartphones in Q2 2020, overtaking Samsung, who saw its sales plummet in the same quarter. Overall 278.4 million smartpho...
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2 years
Apple has reportedly paid Samsung nearly $1 billion in compensation for not meeting order targets for OLED displays from the company. The revelation comes from analysts Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), who claims the myste...
