New Delhi: World PC shipments reached 59 million models within the first quarter of 2025, a 4.8 per cent improve from the primary quarter of 2024, a report confirmed on Monday.  US PC shipments grew 12.6 per cent, reaching 16 million models within the first quarter of 2025, in accordance with preliminary outcomes by Gartner.

“The expansion within the PC market within the first quarter of 2025 was pushed by the surge in shipments in two key markets, the US and Japan, however for various underlying causes,” mentioned Rishi Padhi, Analysis Principal at Gartner The PC market within the US skilled a surge in shipments as distributors elevated stock in anticipation of tariff bulletins, leading to 12.6 per cent year-over-year progress.

Regardless of this improve and the next robust topline progress, underlying end-user demand remained cautious, even with the added increase from enterprises upgrading PCs for Home windows 11, Padhi famous. In Japan, robust enterprise PC demand pushed by Home windows 11 replacements, coupled with the adoption of Chromebooks, considerably contributed to cargo progress of 15.6 per cent.

Padhi additional acknowledged that distributors taking part within the GIGA training Chromebook alternative programme capitalised on this chance by providing upgrades to older gadgets, thereby sustaining momentum available in the market.

In keeping with the Gartner findings, there have been no main modifications within the prime six vendor rankings worldwide within the first quarter of 2025. In worldwide PC shipments, Lenovo had the strongest progress fee among the many prime six distributors at 9.6 per cent year-over-year, whereas Acer skilled the slowest progress at 1.9 per cent.

Furthermore, Within the US market, HP was within the prime spot with 25.1 per cent market share, adopted by Dell with 23.9 per cent of the market, the report famous. The report talked about that Home windows 11 upgrades and elevated stock to pre-empt US tariff impacts fuelled PC progress.