Gartner: PC shipments started to recover in Q2

STAMFORD — Worldwide PC shipments bounced back in the second quarter after the coronavirus crisis prompted a plunge at the beginning of the year, according to a report released this week by Stamford-based consulting and research firm Gartner.

Global PC shipments totaled nearly 65 million units, up 3 percent year over year. Contrasting with a 12 percent slide in the first quarter that marked the sharpest decline since 2013, the past three months reflected distributors’ and retailers’ restocking back to nearnormal levels and increasing mobile PC demand.

“The second quarter of 2020 represented a shortterm recovery for the worldwide PC market, led by exceptionally strong growth” in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Mikako Kitagawa, research director at Gartner, said in a statement.

Uses such as remote working, online education and entertainment drove