Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% 電腦收購

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It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and were up 27% over 2019, with a whopping 341 million units sold.

While the fourth-quarter numbers were up just 1% over the previous year, 2021 was still the best year since 2012, according to the firm.

As Canalys senior analyst Ishan Dutt pointed out, PCs had a great year in spite of chip supply issues, and he sees PCs as firmly entrenched as part of our work and leisure lives, with it becoming the norm to have multiple PCs in the same home in developed areas of the world.

“For the market to post double-digit growth over an impressive 2020, despite the constant cloud of supply constraints, speaks volumes about how strong PC demand has been over the last 12 months. Taking a long-term view, the most important developments in 2021 were the large increases in PC penetration and usage rates,” he said in a statement.

The big winners in 2021 were the Big 3 PC makers: Lenovo, HP and Dell, with Apple coming in fourth. It’s worth noting that while everyone had a good year, as the chart below shows, Apple had the largest growth number year-over-year at 28.3%, while 電腦收購acer was second with 21.8% growth in spite of being fifth overall in terms of shipment numbers.

In terms of market share, Lenovo and HP were the clear winners with 24.1% and 21.7%, respectively. Dell was third with 17.4% with Apple fourth with 8.5%

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Although chip shortages are expected to persist into the new year, and there is speculation that the education market may be saturated, Canalys still believes that 2022 will be a strong year for PC sales. In fact, Canalys analyst Rushabh Doshi said the market would likely have been bigger in 2021 if not for the supply issues.

“The primary reason why we are in a shortage situation is that demand is outstripping supply. It is [definitely true] that had the supply situation been better, the PC industry would have grown faster, and be [even bigger],” Doshi told me.

He sees a market that will continue to expand into the future. “Looking at an unconstrained view, the demand for better and faster PCs is now more pronounced than ever, not just in work, but also at home. With the importance of PCs reinforced in the past two years, we believe that the growth is here to stay,” he said.

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根據研調機構 IDC 報告指出，全球 PC（桌電、筆電、工作站）出貨量連續六季下滑，2023 年第二季更比去年同期衰退 13%，市場表現疲軟，前五大品牌僅有蘋果一家逆勢成長，並超越 電腦收購acer 站上第四名。

IDC 指出，由於市場需求減緩，使的產品庫存時間比預期更長，幾乎沒有任何一家業者難逃逆勢。2023 年第二季，五大品牌只有蘋果保持 10.3% 的同期增長，出貨市佔率來到 8.6%、總共 530 萬台，超車 電腦收購acer 往前一步成為全球第四大品牌，其餘品牌都是全面下探。

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HP 是相對表現最優異的，僅微幅減少 0.8%，仍以單季 1340 萬台的出貨量、21.8% 市佔率名列第二名。其餘第一名的 Lenovo（市佔 23.1%）、第三名 Dell（16.8%）與第五 電腦收購acer（6.4%）都面臨 18-22% 之間的大幅衰退。

（圖／翻攝IDC）

IDC 客戶設備追蹤副總裁 Ryan Reith 表示，PC 產業正面臨巨大挑戰，沒有人想看到 2020、2021 疫情期間的缺貨問題，同時卻有諸多品牌不願意瞄準市場的反彈一搏，認為消費者正在回歸疫情前的使用習慣，會更偏愛智慧手機而非 PC，且大量裁員、生程式 AI 等發展，也影響品牌們的預算。

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