IDC Korea Announces Preliminary Analysis Results of Domestic PC Market
PC shipments for the second quarter of this year are provisionally estimated at around 1 million units.

According to a preliminary analysis of the domestic PC market for the second quarter of 2016 by IDC Korea (CEO Hong Yoo-sook), domestic PC shipments for the second quarter of this year are tentatively estimated at around 1 million units. Analysis suggests that there are limitations to increasing volume due to weakening consumer sentiment and the burden of rising inventory in off-season channels.

However, with the recent increase in the user base enjoying graphics-enhanced games such as Overwatch, interest in gaming laptops is growing. As a result, products equipped with a Core i5 or higher processor and a GTX 950M or higher dedicated graphics card are gaining popularity.


A visitor is examining a laptop on display at the WIS exhibition hall.

In the desktop graphics card market as well, fierce competition is anticipated between NVIDIA's premium GTX 1080 and AMD's RX 480, which offers improved cost-effectiveness, thereby expanding the range of choices for consumers.

Public Sector Introduces Network-Separated PCs with Internal and External Networks for Security Purposes

The public sector is introducing network-separated PCs that separate internal and external networks for security purposes, and the forms of these PCs are also diversifying beyond standard desktops to include all-in-one and mini models. PC cafes are evolving into diskless systems managed by a central server to reduce costs and improve maintenance convenience.

Kwon Sang-jun, a senior researcher at IDC Korea, explained, “While the downward trend in PC demand is inevitable, we expect the PC market to evolve in a more advanced direction by providing new added value through product and service differentiation.”