Global PC shipments up 9.3% in Oct-Dec in AI era

PC shipments reached 71.5 million units globally in the fourth quarter of 2025 -- a 9.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of the previous year, according to preliminary results by Gartner on Tuesday.

For the entire 2025, worldwide PC shipments reached more than 270 million units, a 9.1 per cent increase from 2024.

Rishi Padhi, Research Principal at Gartner, said that the PC market maintained healthy growth in the fourth quarter of 2025, largely driven by robust consumer demand and business demand fuelled by the Windows 11 upgrade cycle.

“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,” he mentioned.

According to the report, there were no major changes in the top six vendor rankings worldwide in the October-December period, with the top three vendors -- Lenovo, HP and Dell -- increasing their market share year-over-year.