Will not pick up until the end of the year

Global server shipments are not expected to regain significant growth momentum until the third quarter or even the fourth quarter of 2019, but the cloud segment's outlook remains robust.

Longest period of decline in history

Beancounters at the Gartner Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and decided that worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.9 million units in the third quarter of 2016 –  a 5.7 percent decline from the third quarter of 2015.

Asustek and Gigabyte see 10 per cent fall

Asustek and Gigabyte have seen interest in their brand motherboard shipments drop 10 per cent from last year.

And 77 percent of industry's operating profit

In 2012

HP top, Lenovo fastest growing

Analyst outfit claims

Second in a row