Personal-computer shipments plunged in the second quarter to levels not seen since a pandemic buying spree began more than two years ago, and consumer demand “is at risk of perishing in the long term,” according to an analysis released Monday.
Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped 15.3% to 71.3 million in the second quarter, according to a report Monday from International Data Group, the second quarterly decline in a row and a deeper drop than the single-digit one seen in the first quarter. IDC said the second-quarter drop was…