The industry is going to be plagued by component shortages, macroeconomic and political factors across EMEA, according to IDC.
The analyst outfit’s latest quarterly PC tracker forecasting unit thought that sales across EMEA of 67.6 million in 2019. This is a 3.5 percent decline compared to the previous year.
Shifting to Windows 10 remains and the ongoing move by commercial customers to renew ageing hardware estates will continue to be a feature. The consumer side of the market is down, and other factors could hit commercial growth.
Malini Paul, research manager, IDC Western European Personal Computing Devices said that the Western European PC market is expected to remain constrained, driven by the CPU supply chain shortage and the difficult political situation in significant economies.
“While the ongoing shortage of notebooks is anticipated to ease by the end of 2019Q2, the CPU supply issue with desktops will continue to impact shipments in the second half of the year”, she said.
IDC is also expecting some movement by firms reacting to the end of Windows 7 support in a year and the growing demand from workers for increased mobility to have a positive impact on laptop sales, in both the private and public sectors.
Along with the component shortages, there are also concerns around the ongoing trade issues between the US and China and the political uncertainty that has been caused by Brexit and the slowdown in major European economies.
