The world ITC market grows 5% to reach $1.9 trillion in Q3 2024

As I predicted last quarter the Information Technology and Communications market continues to grow. In total revenues reached $1.9 trillion (the highest of any quarter in history) in the quarter and $7.4 trillion in the year to the end of September – up 5% and 3% respectively. Net profit, however […] Read more »

Q2 2023 ITC spending – declines in memory and devices, growth in AI hardware

A look at the major spending movements in the UTC market workdwide in Q2 2023 Read more »

The PC market booms, despite supply chain and government challenges

a summary of the worldwide and regional PC market in 2021 Read more »

Microprocessor shortages – reasons, data and solutions

A look at the causes of the shortages of microprocessors Read more »

6. The only hardware spending growth will be on solid state disks and processors

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 […] Read more »

PC market maturity drives new supplier business models

A report of the state of the PC market in Q2 2019 with market shares and evidence of maturity Read more »

Download ITCandor’s presentation for SIA Paris

right click on your mouse and ‘Save Target As’ to save the pdf to your device. [email-download download_id=”13355″ contact_form_id=”13360″] Don’t forget to contact us for questions and comments. Read more »

PCs in Q2 2108 – good growth in a market dominated by smart devices

PCs have been at the heart of access to the Internet and wider digital marketplace for many years. Despite falling behind smart phones in recent years it is still a major component of the ITC industry. In the year to the end of June 2018 236m PCs worth $163b were shipped, […] Read more »

The regional PC market’s American bias

In 2017 spending on PCs increased by 5% to $153 billion – the first annual growth since 2012. The same is not true of annual shipment growth, which has typically been stronger due increasing competition and declining average values. This trend was reversed in 2017 when the popularity of machines based on new […] Read more »