AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next

For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of memory, and the reason it is soaring […] This story continues at The Next Web

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AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next

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