There's hope for the market yet: PC sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year

Serial PC hardware market watchers and soothsayers Canalys has dumped its latest set of PC hardware sales data. And the raw numbers are good, with total PC sales up by nearly 10% for the first quarter of a 2025 compared to the same period last year. But with Trump's China tariffs escalating by the minute, and currently clocking in at 145%, it's anyone's guess where PC sales go from here.

Meanwhile, Canalys says PC makers have already taken major steps to move production out of China, citing...