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Steepest decline among top vendors, shipments down 30.9%

PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the worst third-quarter drop IDC has recorded. Lenovo, Dell, and HP each shipped more than 20% fewer machines as an AI-driven memory shortage squeezed the chips available for consumer devices.

Updated Oct 17