US PC shipments fall 7% in Q1 2026 amid component shortages and rising costs
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Kyriacos Nicolaou
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The US PC market saw a 7% year-on-year decline in Q1 2026, with shipments dropping to 15.8 million units — the largest annual decline since Q3 2023. The downturn is attributed to component supply constraints, surging memory and storage costs, and a demand hangover following the Windows 11 refresh cycle that depleted commercial pipeline demand.
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This result marks the largest annual decline since the third quarter of 2023 and reflects a combination of component supply constraints and surging costs for memory and storage.
The market also faced a demand hangover following the Windows 11 refresh cycle, which had already depleted much of the commercial pipeline.
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