PC shipments up in Q2 breaking traditional seasonal decline

The seasonal pattern of PC shipments used to be flat to down in Q1, way down in Q2 as OEMs and the channel stopped buying stuff and cleaned out old inventory, then up in Q3 as they stocked up for the back-to-school and holiday season, and then up to flat in Q4—used to be. But then we had a grand recession, and production problems from Intel, a trade war and then a pandemic, so whatever notion there may have been of a nice, predictable, seasonality to the PC market has been ripped up and tossed out the window. Here is