Worldwide AI Server Infrastructure Forecast, 2018–2022
This IDC study presents our forecast of worldwide revenue from AI servers."Servers for AI workloads are a very fast-growing segment in the server market," said Peter Rutten, research manager at IDC's Servers and Compute Platform Group. "As our data shows, AI server infrastructure will reach $17.6 billion in 2022, with more than two-thirds of that revenue coming from accelerated servers that run AI. This market has now taken its own unique shape as most server vendors have targeted offerings and large cloud SPs are offering compute instances for AI."
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market More Powerful Systems
- Investigate Diverse Acceleration Technologies
- Market to the Data Lake Requirements
- Engage in Customer Education
- Market Forecast
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Growth in Commercial and Open Source AI Software
- Growth in Accelerated Computing
- Inhibitors
- Relative Immaturity
- Initial Use of Existing, General-Purpose Systems
- Move to the Cloud
- Significant Market Developments
- Productization
- Processor Diversity
- Cloud Service Provider AI Offerings
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Methodology
- Related Research
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