PC Magazine - USA (2021-12)

As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the PC industry
experienced its biggest quarter-over-quarter decline in shipments for laptop
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third quarter, when shipments for laptop CPUs fell by more than 18 million
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Driving the decrease was plummeting demand for low-end laptop CPUs such as
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Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research, called the decline “the worst
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Demand for Low-End Laptop

CPUs Is Tanking

The decline in entry-level PC shipments during this year’s third
quarter also caused the average selling price for CPUs to shoot
up, according to Mercury Research.
BY MICHAEL KAN

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