PC deliveries saw a steep decline of about 20 percent in Q 3 2026, experts reported this week.
The sector saw its “sharpest decrease because “Q 1 2023,” Omdia claimed in a statement toady. Global shipments of laptops, desktop computers, and workstations dropped 21 2 percent year over year (YoY) to 58 1 million gadgets, the analyst claimed.
Desktop computer computer deliveries (consisting of desktop computer workstations) lowered 23 5 percent to 11 7 million units, and laptop shipments (consisting of laptop computer workstations) declined 20 6 percent to 46 4 million, per Omdia.
IDC shared comparable findings. The expert claimed this week that computer deliveries fell 20 1 percent YoY to 62 7 million systems, compared to 78 5 million in Q 3 2025
The sector additionally delivered 9 1 percent less Computers in Q 3 2026 than it did in Q 2 2026, when 68 2 million units delivered, per IDC.
The 20 1 percent YoY decline is the largest decline that the IDC has ever recorded during a year’s third quarter, the IDC said, per PCMag
The drop in shipments is additionally remarkable thinking about that Q 3 Computer shipments typically exceed Q 2’s numbers.
“If taking a look at all quarters, then we have seen various other quarters in recent times with bigger declines, such as 2022 Q 4, which was – 28 2 percent, and 2023 Q 1, which was – 28 7 percent. Both were coming off pandemic highs,” Jitesh Ubrani, study director for consumer gadgets at IDC, told PCMag.
In its news this week, IDC said that numerous PC suppliers and sales networks stockpiled on computer deliveries previously in the year in anticipation of memory price walks. That implied minimal need stayed throughout Q 3
[Sales] channels are currently bothered with lugging too much inventory into a market where high costs are subduing demand,” Ubrani claimed in a statement.
