PC market to grow 4% in 2002, but rebound not due until second half, says Dataquest
Semiconductor Business News
(01/17/02 19:31 p.m. EST)
siliconstrategies.com
SAN JOSE -- Worldwide PC shipments fell by 4.6% in 2001 over 2000, but the PC market is expected to rebound and grow by 4% in 2002, according to a new report from Dataquest Inc. here today.
But Dataquest also believes that the PC market will decline by 4% in the first quarter of 2002, while this industry is not expected to pick up and show any improvement until the second half of this year--that is, assuming there is a worldwide economic recovery by that time.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 128 million units in 2001, a 4.6% decline from 2000, according to Dataquest. U.S. PC shipments reached 44 million units in 2001, an 11.1% decline from the previous year, according to Dataquest.
Dataquest projected that the worldwide PC market will grow by 4%, or 133.1 million units, in 2002.
"While there is a mood of optimism in the industry, [and] having made it through the bloodbath that was 2001, evidence for an immediate improvement in the first quarter of 2002 is far from clear," said Charles Smulders, who tracks the market for Dataquest. |
