{"id":1032902,"date":"2026-09-03T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032902"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:57:53","slug":"pcs-get-an-ai-refresh-as-technology-drives-the-next-upgrade-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/pcs-get-an-ai-refresh-as-technology-drives-the-next-upgrade-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"PCs get an AI refresh as technology drives the next upgrade cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s PC market is growing, but the forces behind that growth are changing. In Q2 2026, shipments rose around 12.1% year on year to 3.9 million units, according to IDC. The consumer segment grew 6.6% to 1.7 million units, while commercial shipments grew nearly 16.6% to 2.2 million units. But the standout number was elsewhere: shipments of AI-capable PCs jumped 109.9% year on year. <\/p>\n<p>The surge came alongside a sharp rise in premium PC sales. Notebooks priced above $1,000 grew nearly 78.7% year on year, with consumer shipments rising 99% and commercial shipments 63.3%. AI-capable notebooks more than doubled. Together, the numbers point to a market where buyers are increasingly moving towards more capable and higher-value machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s PC market is growing, but the forces behind that growth are changing. In Q2 2026, shipments rose around 12.1% year on year to 3.9 million units, according to IDC. The consumer segment grew 6.6% to 1.7 million units, while commercial shipments grew nearly 16.6% to 2.2 million units. But the standout number was elsewhere: shipments of AI-capable PCs jumped 109.9% year on year. The surge came alongside a sharp rise in premium PC sales. Notebooks priced above $1,000 grew nearly 78.7% year on year, with consumer shipments rising 99% and commercial shipments 63.3%. AI-capable notebooks more than doubled. Together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032938,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032902\/revisions\/1032938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}