{"id":946531,"date":"2025-07-15T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946531"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:09:29","slug":"pc-penetration-doubles-since-covid-19-to-15-households-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/15\/pc-penetration-doubles-since-covid-19-to-15-households-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"PC penetration doubles since Covid-19 to 15% households in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Household PC penetration in India has nearly doubled since the Covid-19 pandemic, rising to 13-15% in 2024 from 6-8% in 2019. Annual consumer PC shipments surged to seven million units from four million over the same period, IDC data sourced by ET showed. <\/p>\n<p>Analysts said the market is undergoing a structural transformation beyond the temporary pandemic-induced surge, driven by refresh cycles, greater financial accessibility, and excitement around AI PCs in mid-tier prices. However, there is a lot of ground to cover, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Household PC penetration in India has nearly doubled since the Covid-19 pandemic, rising to 13-15% in 2024 from 6-8% in 2019. Annual consumer PC shipments surged to seven million units from four million over the same period, IDC data sourced by ET showed. Analysts said the market is undergoing a structural transformation beyond the temporary pandemic-induced surge, driven by refresh cycles, greater financial accessibility, and excitement around AI PCs in mid-tier prices. However, there is a lot of ground to cover, they added.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946531","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=946531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}