Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Increased 9.3% in Fourth Quarter of 2025 and 9.1% for the ......
Worldwide PC shipments totalled
71.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 9.3% increase from the
fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc., a
business and technology insights company. For the full year, worldwide PC shipments
totaled more than 270 million units, a 9.1% increase from 2024.
“The PC market maintained
healthy growth in the fourth quarter of 2025, largely driven by robust consumer
demand and business demand fueled by the Windows 11 upgrade cycle,” said, Rishi
Padhi, Research Principal at Gartner. “Demand softened by the end of the
quarter as price pressure and promotions offset earlier price increases on
high-end GPUs and AI PCs, resulting in stable or slightly lower average selling
prices.”
There were no major changes in
the top six vendor rankings worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2025 (see Table
1), with the top three vendors - Lenovo, HP Inc. and Dell - increasing their
market share year-over-year.
“Tariff volatility,
anticipated memory price hikes in 2026, and rising costs associated with
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates prompted businesses to prioritize
replacing hardware,” said Padhi. “Another factor for growth in 2025 was vendors
focused heavily on promoting AI PCs to capture replacement demand. However, most
AI PC features, such as local inference, have yet to deliver significant
productivity gains compared to cloud-based AI solutions. As a result, many
organizations are upgrading primarily to future-proof their fleets, rather than
to realize immediate business value from AI capabilities.”
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