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Mark Tyson

IDC says PC shipments will increase because of tariffs, now expects 274 million PCs to ship in 2025

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Market research and tech analyst firm IDC reckons that global PC sales will reach 274 million units in 2025. Thus, we should be looking at a 4.1% uplift in PC sales compared to 2024, indicates IDC. This appears to be good news for the PC industry, and factors including a race to beat U.S. tariffs and Windows 11 are behind the upward revision, say the firm’s analysts.

We last wrote about IDC global PC shipment forecasts back in February, when the impact of U.S. tariffs and the cool reception to AI PCs were expected to be headwinds affecting the industry. At that time, IDC expected global PC sales to be up 3.7% (at 273 million units) compared to 2024 (262.7 million units were shipped last year).

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