PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

2025 was a particularly weird year for the PC market. We started it with a new generation of Nvidia and AMD cards and tariff worries, and ended it with the start of a memory crisis and, err, tariff worries. Preliminary reports suggest that PC sales ended strongly, but also suggest that 2026 could be much worse

A report sent to PC Gamer by the Internal Data Corporation claims a 9.6% growth year over year in the fourth quarter of 2025, but it "expects that the PC market will be far different...