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Fortune
David Meyer

PCs are interesting again, and it's thanks to A.I.

Visitors at the Thailand Game Show 2022 play games at the Intel booth. (Credit: Guillaume Payen—SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The future of the personal computer is a bit hard to figure out at the moment, and that’s partly because of the sudden rise of artificial intelligence, analysts say.

Analyst house IDC this week released its latest quarterly PC-shipments forecast, predicting that demand growth will finally return to the market in 2024, following a couple years of post-pandemic sobriety. Gartner also recently came to a similar conclusion, and it makes sense when you consider that Microsoft will cease to support Windows 10 in 2025, pushing many IT departments towards a refresh.

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