Gartner estimates Q3 PC shipments fell 22.4% as memory costs feed into pricing

Gartner's estimate put third-quarter PC shipments at 55.4 million units, a 22.4% decline from a year earlier. Electronics Weekly reports that higher memory and storage costs are now showing up in PC pricing. The supplied excerpt does not include a breakdown of how much of the shipment decline or retail-price change is attributable to memory, so the figures should not be read as a measure of memory demand alone.