On October 12, Beijing time morning news, market research firm Gartner, according to data from the third quarter, global PC shipments fell for the eighth straight quarter, the market is the longest duration of landslides.

Gartner, according to a report in the third quarter, PC makers shipped 68.9 million devices, fell 5.7% year on year. The quarter of the landslide is mainly due to the weak back-to-school demand, as well as consumer users, especially the emerging market consumer depressed demand of users.

Gartner, chief analyst at beichuan meijia son said: "in mature markets, most consumers already have or use at least three different types of devices. In these devices, the PC is not the highest priority for most users of equipment, so compared with the past, they don't think need to update the PC often. Some users may never update the PC again."