The desktop PC market is expected to have negative annual growth of 2.5% annually until 2022

Market research company IDC announced shipments in 2017 on PCs such as desktop PCs, notebook PCs and tablets. The trend of declining desktop PC demand is ongoing, and shipments finally divided 100 million units.

Despite Steady Commercial Uptake, Personal Computing Device Market Expected to Decline at a -1.8% CAGR through 2022, according to IDC
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According to IDC, shipments in 2017 based on information obtained from markets in more than 90 countries are 97.8 million desktop PCs, 161.6 million laptop PCs (including mobile workstations), 2190 2 in 1 tablet PCs Ten thousand units and tablets reached 141.8 million units. Shipment volume of PC overall was down 2.7% from the previous year.


The PC market is still poorly growing, and it is estimated that the annual average growth rate (CAGR) will be minus 1.8% by 2022. Among them, desktop PC is expected to reduce demand following tablet, CAGR is minus 2.5%, shipment volume is expected to be 86 million units in 2022, and PC's share will be 22.3% in 2022. The share of 2022 is 42.1% for notebook PCs, and IDC expects that it will increase its presence.

The following graph shows the growth rate forecast by IDC. Desktop PCs, tablets, PCs are expected to always grow negative until 2022. It is expected that the growth rate will also slow down on 2in1 tablet PC with relatively high growth rate.


According to IDC, the PC market shrank in 2017 was as expected. In addition, the shrinking PC market further advanced in 2018, showing a prospect of a 3.2% decrease overall. Although desktop PC shipments are decreasing and overall PC shipments are decreasing, notebook PC markets such as ultra-thin notebook PCs and premium notebook PCs are showing the highest growth since 2012, said IDC Research Manager Says Jay Chou.