The year 2023 saw a drop in the PC market within the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, including China and Japan, by 16.1 percent to 97.4 million, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Quarterly Personal Computing Devices Tracker.
Due to the combination of factors, slow economic recovery and weak demand, experts are doubtful of seeing a rebound in shipments in 2024.
Senior Market Analyst, Devices Research, IDC Asia/Pacific, Matthew Ong, said that due to the decline in the overall demand for devices in both the commercial and consumer segments, the APAC region has seen reduced year-on-year (YoY) in all quarters in 2023.
Ong also added that the lower sales are due to demands that were fulfilled during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not helped by the challenging economic conditions that remain a pressing issue to this day.

The first half of 2023 also saw limited shipments following a case of market players facing high inventory levels, which was enacted to prevent channels from getting overstocked, he added.
The increasing interest rates compounded by inflation have weakened the consumers’ buying power, aggravated by the shift in expenditure priorities.
While 2024 did see growth, it is a mere 0.4 percent increase whose volumes are forecasted at 97.8 million units. Meanwhile, the first half of the year is anticipated to remain weak, but with growth expected to arrive during the second half—particularly, in China and Japan.
China is anticipated to ramp up its PC purchases due to an expected economic recovery while Japan will do the same, though caused by replacement demand for PCs in 2019.