Stefan Mileschin

Shortages to continue for months

Shortages of laptop and desktop computers will continue as the world discovered that the mobile revolution was not all Apple claimed.

One of the upsides of the coronavirus was it revealed that when it came to using technology seriously you still needed a proper PC. Remote learning and working has upturned the computer market during the coronavirus pandemic, zapping sales of smartphones in the process.

According to Acer Pan-America president Gregg Prendergast this has strained the whole supply chain. Annual global shipments of PCs, the industry’s collective term for laptops and desktops, topped out at about 300 million in 2008 and recently were sinking toward 250 million. Few expected a resurgence.

But some analysts now expect 2020 will close at about 300 million shipments, up roughly 15 percent from a year ago.
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