
Notebook shipment update, April 2026
Affected by weakened channel stocking momentum and a high base period, shipments of the top five notebook brands fell 33% sequentially in April 2026.
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Affected by weakened channel stocking momentum and a high base period, shipments of the top five notebook brands fell 33% sequentially in April 2026.

Affected by the US-Iran war and notebook price hikes, global notebook shipments are likely to increase only 4.4% quarterly in the second quarter of 2026.

February 2026 notebook industry observation: Capacity sharply reduced during the Lunar New Year holidays, and component shortage persists; shipments of the top five notebook brands decrease 5% month-on-month.

Memory price surge and CPU shortages led the global top five notebook brands' shipments to slump nearly 40% month-on-month in January 2026.

Soaring memory prices prompt vendors to stock up early, with global notebook shipments to decrease by over 13% quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter of 2026.

Surging memory prices trigger an order pull-in wave by brand vendors, with combined monthly notebook shipments of the top-5 brands rising 6% from a month ago in November.

Benefiting from AI upscaling technology and NPU-assisted AI computing, global Windows handheld gaming device shipments are expected to grow by over 50% in 2026.

Significant breakthroughs in specific areas of China's ITAI PC industry; the localized features of AI PC break the Wintel monopoly in the consumer market.

Stronger order pull-ins in the prior two quarters led to a 25% month-on-month decrease in combined notebook shipments from the top-5 brands.

Apple's fourth-quarter 2025 notebook shipments will be strongly driven by new products, but overall notebook shipments worldwide are expected to decline by 6% quarter-on-quarter during the period.