Lenovo Shipments Fall 22.4% to 14.993 Million Units as PC Market Contracts
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Gartner estimated Lenovo's personal computer shipments at about 14.993 million units in the third quarter of 2026, down 22.4% year on year, matching the contraction in the global market during the period. The figures were part of preliminary shipment estimates, according to the firm. Global shipments totaled 55.4 million units, compared with the third quarter of 2025. Despite the decline in shipment volume, Lenovo maintained a market share of 27.1%. That places the company's performance in the context of a broad slowdown in the PC market, rather than a standalone decline in its share.
Lenovo shipments totaled 19.330 million units in the third quarter of 2025, according to Gartner's comparison, before falling to 14.993 million in the same period of 2026. The comparison shows an annual contraction of 22.4%, while market share remained at 27.1% in both periods. Across the sector, global shipments fell by the same percentage, and Gartner's estimate reported no change in Lenovo's ranking or share. The simultaneous declines at the company and market levels reflect pressure on supply and demand in the personal computer market. Global shipments totaled 55.4 million units in the quarter covered by the estimate.
Gartner attributed the decline to higher memory and storage costs and the pass-through of those increases to PC prices. The firm said the cost of DRAM rose fivefold year on year in the second quarter of 2026. The increase in component costs led manufacturers to pass some of the expense on through device prices, in Gartner's explanation of the shipment contraction. Gartner said higher prices reduced the availability of lower-cost models. It also made replacement purchases less affordable for consumers, as device costs weighed on decisions to upgrade.
In the enterprise segment, Gartner said spending shifted toward specific investments, such as workstations and AI-enabled PCs, rather than broad PC deployments. This means enterprise demand was concentrated in selected categories, while providing less support for overall market shipments. The shift coincided with memory and storage price pressures that limited the availability of lower-cost devices. For Lenovo, shipments fell alongside the global market contraction, while the company retained a 27.1% share. This picture remains separate from group revenue, which showed growth driven by AI-related revenue in the company's previous financial results.
In the fourth quarter of its 2025/26 financial year, Lenovo posted record revenue of $21.6 billion, up 27% year on year. AI-related revenue rose 84%, accounting for 38% of the group's total revenue in that quarter. Earlier, in the third quarter of the same financial year, AI-related revenue increased 72% year on year and accounted for 32% of group revenue. The company said growth spanned devices, infrastructure, services and solutions. These results highlight a divergence between momentum in AI-related revenue and the decline in personal computer shipments Gartner recorded in the third quarter of 2026.
In trading, Lenovo shares closed at 20.5 Hong Kong dollars on October 30, 2026, after closing at 22.14 Hong Kong dollars in the previous session, according to EL7 data. On the same day, Intel shares fell 30% after the company warned of weak PC demand and rising costs from the AI boom, according to Reuters. The decline included shares in global chip and technology companies, amid broader pressure on the sector. Lenovo's closing price alone does not identify the reason for the share move. The available data also do not establish the decline percentage cited in the draft or attribute the share move to any particular factor.