The fallout from Ramageddon is beginning to hit PC manufacturers. The preliminary figures from market analysts IDC for the second quarter of 2026 are painful reading if you’re a PC maker. Overall growth was down almost 5%, with HP suffering the biggest fall at 9%. Only Apple bucked the trend, with the launch of the MacBook Neo seeing its shipments grow by just over 10% – but even Apple has since been forced to raise prices (see box, opposite). It’s Jitesh Urbani’s job to keep track of all these figures. Here, IDC’s director of worldwide device trackers tells us why the worst is yet to come, but also when the RAM shortages should start to ease. …