In the third quarter of this year, the global PC shipments fell cheap tablet pc and smart phones as a decline in the demand for the sixth consecutive quarter, cut, according to market research firm IDC and Gartner Inc.

IDC said that the market fell nearly 8 percent, to 81.6 million, while Gartner put down almost 9% to 80.3 million. Pc definitions of these two companies is slightly different.

IDC expects the PC market will bottom out sometime next year, and finally as companies and consumers began to recover in 2015 to replace the aging pc Gartner said that this year will be the worst, and tablet shipments next year and a percentage increase in the number of in 2015.

IDC senior analyst Jay Chou said: "There is sort of Pc and the need to replace the rubber band effect."

Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa said that in developed countries, consumers won't abandon PCs, though they are holding onto them longer and spending money on other gadgets before replacing them. "The overall market size will shrink, but at some point those old PCs will be replaced by new ones," she said.

The U.S. market emerged as a bright spot in both reports. IDC said the U.S. market was almost unchanged, while Gartner said it rose 3.5 per cent. Gartner credited low supplies and Intel's new low-power Haswell line of chips with helping boost demand. IDC said falling prices of touch-screen laptops also helped.

The outlook for a stabilizing PC market was mirrored by Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's No. 2 PC maker behind Lenovo. In a presentation before analysts Wednesday, the company predicted "stabilizing revenue declines" for its upcoming fiscal year, which starts in November.

The top 3 PC sellers -- Lenovo, HP and Dell -- all grew shipments between zero and 3 per cent during the quarter, thanks in part to a healthy U.S. market, both research firms said. Acer and Asus suffered steep declines.

IDC said Acer and Asus suffered declines of about 34 per cent, while Gartner pegged the drop at nearly 23 per cent.

IDC said Acer suffered from weak consumer spending while Asus was hurt by a lack of corporate customers.

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