Although PC sales remained weak in Q2 2023, things weren't all bad. While most PC makers were busy selling off remaining inventory, they increased purchases of CPUs and other components. As a result, while shipments of processors and graphics processing units (GPUs) for PCs declined in Q2 year-over-year, they were up 11.6% quarter-over-quarter, according to Jon Peddie Research.
The industry shipped 61.6 million graphics processing units for all platforms in Q2 2022, a decline of 27% year-over-year, but an increase of 11.6% quarter-over-quarter, JPR reports. When it comes to discrete and integrated desktop GPUs, their sales declined by 36%, whereas shipments of GPUs for notebooks decreased by 23%. Meanwhile, a quarter-to-quarter increase in GPU shipments may indicate growing demand and depleted old inventory.
