The global top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments slip over 30% on month and over 10% on year in January 2022 due to a major deceleration in order momentum from the retail channel, as most retailers had already completed replenishing their inventory in December. Weakening demand for enterprise notebooks also played a part in the decline
Global notebook shipments reached 247 million units in 2021, an increase of more than 20% over 2020. The annual growth rate was slightly less than that of 2020, but there was a net increase in shipments of more than 45 million units for the first time. Compared to the 150-160 million units shipped pre-pandemic, the annual shipment scale of the current market has already risen by nearly 100 million units. Now the market is wondering whether this growth will be sustainable in the future
Worldwide notebook shipments climbed 23.1% to 247 million units in 2021, after rising over 20% on year in 2020. But shipments are likely to register a slight decrease this year, according to DIGITIMES Research
Digitimes Research expects the slow season to have a bigger influence on the notebook market in the first quarter of 2022 than seasonal effects had in the first quarter of 2021. Overall notebook shipments are expected to slip 10% sequentially
Open radio access network (O-RAN) technology was originally developed to provide telecom carriers flexibility and cost efficiency in network deployment, but it has become a weapon used by the US to push telecom carriers worldwide to replace their existing equipment sets made by Chinese vendors, according to Digitimes Research
