Many of the world’s famend PC manufacturers left Russia after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Regardless of this, the nation retains getting PCs with Apple, Dell, and HP badges via gray market imports. International-controlled manufacturers commanded over 90% of the Russian PC market final yr, with solely 9% coming from native manufacturers, in keeping with CNews. Curiously, CPU gross sales remained flat in 2022 although neither AMD nor Intel formally shipped merchandise to Russia, experiences Kommersant.
In keeping with information from GS Group cited, Chinese language manufacturers remained the main PC suppliers — together with Lenovo and Huawei — in Russia in 2022, with about 38% market share. Then again, Taiwanese distributors — comparable to MSI, Acer, and Asus — captured a 35% share of the Russian PC market, whereas U.S.-originating PC OEMs (Apple, Dell, HP, and so on.) managed roughly 19% of the market in 2022, down from 36% in 2021. Against this, Russian distributors equipped 9% of PCs offered within the nation, up from 4% in 2021 and three% in 2022.
Whereas the vast majority of well-known American, Chinese language, and Taiwanese PC makers formally left Russia after it began the struggle towards Ukraine, their merchandise now circulation to Russia via different nations, together with Turkey and the UAE, to call a number of. PCs carrying badges of home PC distributors are primarily produced in China as barebones, shipped to the nation formally, and configured regionally. Whereas their reputation is rising, this doesn’t imply that the nation is increasing its manufacturing of computer systems. As a substitute, some corporations have began promoting PCs beneath their very own manufacturers extra aggressively.
GS Group doesn’t disclose what number of PCs have been offered in Russia in 2022. In the meantime, analysts from Marvel, a serious distributor within the nation, estimated that gross sales of PCs within the nation reached 1.18 million models within the first half of the yr. Whereas it’s arduous to say what number of models have been equipped within the second half of the yr since many manufacturers left, it’s cheap to imagine that the Russian PC TAM exceeded two million models in 2022.
Curiously, however based mostly on the numbers from the Federal Customs Service, solely about half of the CPUs powering these programs have been equipped to the nation legally.
Kommersant experiences that about 1.027 million CPUs have been shipped to Russia in 2022. Some 782 thousand of them have been made by Intel (up 9% year-over-year), 143 thousand carried the AMD trademark (down 2x in comparison with 2021), whereas one other 102 thousand have been developed by different distributors, which most likely contains some Chinese language names.
