Today, chips are in everything from game consoles and toothbrushes to washing machines and alarm clocks. However, the world is facing a serious chip crisis, showing no signs of stopping. Glenn O’Donnell, vice president of research at consulting firm Forrester, believes the situation will last until 2023 due to high demand and continued supply stress. He forecast personal computer demand will decline slightly next year, while data centers will buy more chips. According to him, combined with the growth in cloud computing and mining, the demand for chips is going to explode. According to Patrick Armstrong, IT director of Plurimi Investment Managers, the chip crisis could last 18 months. There are too many products that require chips such as cars, phones, IoT… All connected to the Internet. The car industry is affected more than any other sector. Earlier this month, the world’s largest chipmaker TSMC said it could catch up with car demand in June. But Mr. Armstrong said that was too ambitious. Ford, BMW, and Volkswagen all stressed they had production bottlenecks and couldn’t buy enough chips needed to build cars. Research firm Gartner predicts the chip crisis will continue until 2021, not to mention chip prices also increase. Analyst Alan Priestley said the situation could improve for some sectors in the next six months, but there could also be a “chain effect” into 2022. The semiconductor industry is doing everything to increase productivity but need time. In fact, Intel announced to spend $ 20 billion for two new chip factories in Arizona, USA. According to Mr. Priestley, it will take two to three years for these plants to operate but it will meet future demand. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of German chip maker Infineon, said last week that it “clearly takes time” until supply and demand balance. According to Wenzhe Zhao, Credit Suisse’s director of global economics and strategy, the recent chip crisis has encouraged inventory stockpiling in the supply chain, leading to a widening supply-demand gap. Not much can be done to solve the current situation, he said, except to adjust orders, production schedules and prices. Du Lam (According to CNBC)

By 2021, the total number of personal computers (laptops and desktops), tablets and smartphones will reach 6.2 billion units globally, according to the latest forecast from research firm Gartner. .

According to the report, the number of laptops and tablets in use by 2021 will increase by 125 million units compared to 2020. By 2022, the number of these devices globally will reach 6.4 billion units, an increase 3.2% compared to 2021. Gartner believes that the number of laptops and tablets will increase by 8.8% and 11.7% by 2021, respectively. will decrease from 522 million units in 2020 to 470 million units by 2022.

Although the number of smartphones will decrease by 2.6% by 2020, it will increase by 1% by 2021. Ranjit Atwal, Gartner Senior Research Director, said: “The pandemic has permanently changed the way the device is used. employee and consumer Family education has shifted to digital education, interactive games to cloud computing… The variety and number of devices will continue to increase ”.

Gartner also predicts a 32% increase in PCs in Q1 2021, to 69.9 million units over the same period last year. This is the fastest growth rate in 21 years. During a pandemic, people need computers to work from home or study online. Shipments in Q1 this year remained the highest since 2015 of 71.7 million units.

Lenovo is still the largest PC maker in the world, with 25.1% market share, up from 23.3% a year ago. HP and Dell ranked second and third with market shares of 21.4% and 16.5%, respectively. Apple, Acer and Asus ranked fourth through sixth.

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