personal computers

IDC: global PC shipments plunge 20% in third quarter

Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, according to preliminary data from IDC. It was the second quarterly decline in a row and a much steeper one than the…

IDC says global PC shipments fell 20% in third quarter

Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% from a year earlier to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, down from 78.5 million, according to preliminary data from research firm IDC released Thursday, Oct. 8. Shipments also dropped 9.1% from…

Apple’s M6 Mac mini and Mac Studio go on sale

Apple began selling its redesigned Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop computers on September 22, bringing the company's first 2-nanometer processor to market and marking a new push into on-device artificial intelligence for desktop users. Retailers are already cutting prices,…

Nvidia unveils tool to turn idle home PCs into AI clusters

Nvidia used IFA 2026 in Berlin to lay out a sweeping local AI strategy, releasing a free open-source tool that turns idle household PCs into a shared AI compute cluster and confirming that its ARM-based RTX Spark Windows PCs will…

Global PC shipments fall for first time since 2025 amid memory chip shortage

The global PC market posted its first year-over-year decline since early 2025 in the second quarter of 2026, as surging memory chip prices — a phenomenon increasingly called "chipflation" — squeezed manufacturers and dampened consumer demand. According to Counterpoint Research,…

Global PC shipments fall for first time in two years amid memory crunch

The global PC market posted its first year-over-year decline in more than two years during the second quarter of 2026, with shipments falling 4.9% to 68.2 million units, according to preliminary data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker…