PC shipments post biggest quarterly sales drop ever — the IDC blames Windows 8

PC shipments fell off the proverbial cliff in the first quarter of 2013, according to IDC, with their biggest drop ever in recorded history.

AMD cuts chip orders with global PC market in decline

Major semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices has substantially sliced orders to chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries because it expects a “choppy demand environment” for PCs in 2013.

Dell to cut $2B in costs over 3 years, will pay out dividend

No. 3 PC maker Dell plans to cut more than $2 billion in spending during the next three years as it seeks to focus on making data-center equipment, Bloomberg reports.

The company intends to trim costs by cutting down its …

Lenovo jumps to No. 2 in global PC share on $29.6B in annual sales

With tablets eating into PC sales, maintaining growth has been tough business for PC vendors.

And yet Lenovo is still going strong. The company posted fourth quarter 2012 sales of $7.5 billion, an increase of 54 percent over the previous …