Most of the world's renowned PC brands left Russia after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Despite this, the country keeps getting PCs with Apple, Dell, and HP badges through grey market imports. Foreign-controlled brands commanded over 90% of the Russian PC market last year, with only 9% coming from local brands, according to CNews. Interestingly, CPU sales remained flat in 2022 even though neither AMD nor Intel officially shipped products to Russia, reports Kommersant.
According to data from GS Group cited, Chinese brands remained the leading PC suppliers — including Lenovo and Huawei — in Russia in 2022, with about 38% market share. On the other hand, Taiwanese vendors — such as MSI, Acer, and Asus — captured a 35% share of the Russian PC market, whereas U.S.-originating PC OEMs (Apple, Dell, HP, etc.) controlled approximately 19% of the market in 2022, down from 36% in 2021. By contrast, Russian vendors supplied 9% of PCs sold in the country, up from 4% in 2021 and 3% in 2022.
GS Group does not disclose how many PCs were sold in Russia in 2022. Meanwhile, analysts from Marvel, a major distributor in the country, estimated that sales of PCs in the country reached 1.18 million units in the first half of the year. While it is hard to say how many units were supplied in the second half of the year since many brands left, it is reasonable to assume that the Russian PC TAM exceeded two million units in 2022.
Interestingly, but based on the numbers from the Federal Customs Service, only about half of the CPUs powering those systems were supplied to the country legally.
Kommersant reports that about 1.027 million CPUs were shipped to Russia in 2022. Some 782 thousand of them were made by Intel (up 9% year-over-year), 143 thousand carried the AMD trademark (down 2x compared to 2021), whereas another 102 thousand were developed by other vendors, which probably includes some Chinese names.
