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It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and were up 27% over 2019, with a whopping 341 million units sold.

While the fourth-quarter numbers were up just 1% over the previous year, 2021 was still the best year since 2012, according to the firm.

As Canalys senior analyst Ishan Dutt pointed out, PCs had a great year in spite of chip supply issues, and he sees PCs as firmly entrenched as part of our work and leisure lives, with it becoming the norm to have multiple PCs in the same home in developed areas of the world.

“For the market to post double-digit growth over an impressive 2020, despite the constant cloud of supply constraints, speaks volumes about how strong PC demand has been over the last 12 months. Taking a long-term view, the most important developments in 2021 were the large increases in PC penetration and usage rates,” he said in a statement.

The big winners in 2021 were the Big 3 PC makers: Lenovo, HP and Dell, with Apple coming in fourth. It’s worth noting that while everyone had a good year, as the chart below shows, Apple had the largest growth number year-over-year at 28.3%, while acer筆電收購acer was second with 21.8% growth in spite of being fifth overall in terms of shipment numbers.

In terms of market share, Lenovo and HP were the clear winners with 24.1% and 21.7%, respectively. Dell was third with 17.4% with Apple fourth with 8.5%

Image Credits: Canalys

Although chip shortages are expected to persist into the new year, and there is speculation that the education market may be saturated, Canalys still believes that 2022 will be a strong year for PC sales. In fact, Canalys analyst Rushabh Doshi said the market would likely have been bigger in 2021 if not for the supply issues.

“The primary reason why we are in a shortage situation is that demand is outstripping supply. It is [definitely true] that had the supply situation been better, the PC industry would have grown faster, and be [even bigger],” Doshi told me.

He sees a market that will continue to expand into the future. “Looking at an unconstrained view, the demand for better and faster PCs is now more pronounced than ever, not just in work, but also at home. With the importance of PCs reinforced in the past two years, we believe that the growth is here to stay,” he said.

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全球 PC 市場蕭條，Intel 向外媒證實，將不再直接投資 NUC「迷你電腦」，轉與其他生態系夥伴攜手合作，旗下自有品牌的「迷你電腦」將走入歷史。

外媒《ServetheHome》報導，Intel 證實將停止對於 NUC 業務的直接投資，會調整戰略，改與生態系統夥伴合作創新。同時也強調，現有的產品將會持續支援。外媒認為，有鑑於全球 PC 市場持續低迷，已經連續六季出貨量下探，Intel 或許是在精簡業務，專心於晶片生產。

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外媒《Engadget》分析，NUC 存在的意義已經不像 10 年前一樣強烈，由於緊湊的機殼使 GPU、CPU 散熱是一大考驗，另外蘋果 Mac mini 還有華擎、Dell 與聯想等對手，都加劇了市場競爭。

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