PC shipments fall 20% in sharpest decline since Q1 2023
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AI's appetite for memory chips is squeezing the PC market, and analysts expect the fourth quarter to be even worse The PC market just had its worst quarter in more than three years. Global shipments fell roughly 20% year over year in Q3 2026, according to research firms Omdia and IDC. Omdia called it the industry’s sharpest decline since Q1 2023. The culprit is not a sudden loss of interest in laptops. It is artificial intelligence, which has been quietly buying up the memory chips that PCs need to function.
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