The 6,650 people affected by the Dell layoffs will hit 5 percent of its total workforce. The decision comes as PC sales as a whole got hit with large reductions in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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Global PC shipments have continued to decline, according to market intelligence firm IDC. Despite this, the company reports that the shipments in 4Q22 were well above pre-pandemic levels.
HP is set to cut as much as 10% of its 61,000-strong workforce as a result of the declining demand for personal computers. The problem also worsened when companies curbed their tech investments.
Gartner has revealed that semiconductor revenues won't be as good in 2022 as anticipated during the last quarter. Early figures for 2023 also reveal the sector will see contraction.
The analyst firm, IDC, has reported that PC sales have declined for the second consecutive quarter due to macroeconomic issues. Despite this, sales are still way up against pre-pandemic levels.
This previous year was terrible for the PC market, with sales seeing their biggest decline on record. The launch of Windows 10 did little to help the market, being a free upgrade.
After more than two years of decline, the PC market finally shows some signs of recovery, but the improvements are so small that research companies disagree about what really happened.
Gartner reports that worldwide PC sales were down for the fourth quarter of 2012, and claims part of the reason is that people are turning to tablets for secondary devices.
The latest figures show that the global PC market - including tablets - has grown 21% year-on-year. But as iPad sales fell by over 20% last quarter, HP regained its spot as the world's top PC maker.
The list of downloadable PC games on sale this weekend includes titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Serious Sam 3, Brink, the original Syndicate and lots more.
A new report from Forrester Research claims that even as tablet sales go up, they will also cause sales of PC desktops to rise, although at the expense of notebook PC sales.
A new report from IDC says that PC shipments actually went up in the first quarter of 2012, beating expectations of a slight decline in shipments for that same time period.
Research group IDC said this week it expects the launch of Windows 8 to help boost overall PC shipments in the second half of 2012. It also says tablets won't be a replacement for the PC.
A new report from Gartner claims that PC sales will grow by just 4.4 percent in 2012 ahead of the launch of Windows 8 but will grow more quickly by the end of 2013.
Apple's latest quarterly financial announcement on Tuesday revealed that the company has sold 9.25 million units of its iPad tablet in the April-June quarter of 2011. The massive sales of the iPad brand, which launched...
There are now more than one billion PCs in use worldwide and this number will double by the year 2014, according to Gartner research. The figures relate to computers that are actually being used, as...
