India PC Shipments Surpass Pandemic Peak As First-Time Users Upgrade

India's PC market surged 10.2% in 2025, crossing 15 million units for the first time. Here's what's driving the record-breaking growth.
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India PC Shipments Surpass Pandemic Peak As First-Time Users Upgrade
India PC Market Hits All-Time High as Upgrade Wave Sweeps the Nation India's PC market just broke its own record — and the numbers tell a story that goes far beyond simple sales figures. In 2025, PC shipments across the country climbed 10.2% year-over-year to reach 15.9 million units, the highest annual total ever recorded. For millions of Indians, this isn't just a tech story. It's the next chapter of a digital transformation that quietly began during a global pandemic. How India's PC Shipments Crossed the 15-Million-Unit Mark For context, the previous peaks came in 2021 and 2022, when pandemic-era lockdowns pushed workers, students, and families toward laptops and desktops almost overnight. Those years felt like a once-in-a-generation demand spike — the kind that analysts typically don't expect to see repeated. Yet 2025 didn't just match those numbers. It surpassed them entirely. According to research from IDC, India's total shipments of desktops, notebooks,…