Tablets, Traditional PCs on Pace for 5-Year Decline, Says IDC; Detachables to Rise
Tablet shipments, increasingly concentrated in holiday quarters, will have a negative 4.4 percent compound annual growth rate to 95.6 million units globally by 2023, down from 114.7 million this year, IDC said Thursday. Despite growth in the commercial segment last…
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year, traditional PCs had declines overall and are forecast to slip 0.4 percent from 254.4 million this year to 250.5 million over the period. Detachable shipments are expected to grow 4.6 percent to 26.5 million, up from 22.1 million this year, as vendors turn attention to enterprise and education markets. Chrome-based devices, focused on education to date, will likely gain traction in the enterprise as more detachable models enter the market. Traditional PCs will continue along a “tough landscape” with falling desktop demand offset by emerging notebook opportunities, said IDC. Gaming PCs, seeing building momentum in 2018, will face some short-term challenges as the market works through older graphics processor inventory, it said.