- Omdia data published by TechTarget showed global PC shipments rose 3.2% year over year in 1Q26 to 64,844,000 units.
- Notebook shipments increased 2.6% to 50,800,000 units, while desktop shipments climbed 5.4% to 14,000,000 units.
- Order pull-ins supported 1Q26 volumes ahead of expected component cost inflation, with memory and storage costs up about five-fold and three-fold since 1Q25.
- Omdia flagged further bill-of-materials pressure from 2Q, with Intel and AMD projecting CPU price increases of 10%-25%.
- Vendor rankings kept Lenovo No. 1 with 16,529,000 units shipped, while HP shipments fell 4.9% to 12,142,000.
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