Gartner Lowers 2025 Forecast for AI PC Adoption
The analyst firm now expects AI-enabled PCs to represent less than one-third of the market, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and trade policy.
Enterprise adoption of AI-enabled PCs is slowing, according to a revised forecast from Gartner published on August 28, 2025. The analyst firm now projects that AI PCs will represent less than one-third of the global PC market by the end of the year, a significant downward revision from its earlier forecast of 43%.
The report suggests that while the long-term trend is toward AI at the edge, near-term headwinds are causing businesses to delay widespread hardware refreshes.
Slower Growth Amid Uncertainty
Gartner now expects nearly 78 million AI PC units to be shipped in 2025. While this is a …
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