The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be 1.3% less than we did in 2019.
Within the product types there will be stars that help sustain business levels, such as solid/3D printing in peripheral, as well as smart wearables and IoT devices in mobile device areas. Dependent on the delivery date of new gaming consoles by Sony and/or Microsoft, it’s possible that this area will beat my forecast – we’ll just have to see.