Warehouses in the IT channel are stocking up with AI-capable PCs - industry watcher Canalys claims these made up 20 percent of all shipments during Q3

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

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2024-11-17 22:00:05

Warehouses in the IT channel are stocking up with AI-capable PCs - industry watcher Canalys claims these made up 20 percent of all shipments during Q3 2024, amounting to some 13.3 million units worldwide.

"Shipments," of course, simply means that these devices have left the makers' factory and been delivered to distributors, rather than 13.3 million AI-capable PCs being snapped up by buyers.

Nevertheless, Canalys says this figure represents a sequential growth of 49 percent over the previous quarter, meaning that vendors are ramping up output of AI-enabled systems in the hope these will prove popular.

Whether this will be the case at present is debatable. None of the industry experts we approached were able to give us any real insight on how well these AI boxes are selling compared with plain old PCs, or whether they are getting any traction with buyers.

In one sense, this doesn't really matter, since it is likely you won't be able to buy any computer that isn't AI-enabled before long. Recent forecasts estimate that such systems may account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, and go on to make up the bulk of the market by 2026.

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