Mumbai: The Centre may have eased guidelines for IT and IT enabled services, but the covid-19 pandemic has already hit the sector hard.
Global personal computer (PC) shipments declined 12.3% in the January-March, with Asia Pacific (APAC) showing the steepest year-on-year decline -- 27.1% -- since Gartner started tracking the PC market.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 51.6 million units in the first quarter of 2020, a 12.3% decline from the first quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
After three consecutive quarters of growth, the worldwide PC market saw its sharpest decline since 2013 due to the covid-19 outbreak. “The single most significant influencing factor for PC shipment decline was the coronavirus