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By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales

January 13, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

As the year came to an end, we tore apart IDC’s assessments for server spending, including the huge jump in accelerated supercomputers for running GenAI and more traditional machine learning workloads and as this year got started, we did forensic analysis and modeling based on the company’s reckoning of Ethernet switching and routing revenues. …

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The Most Obvious Hyperscaler To Do Custom Chips Was Always Facebook

May 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Et tu, Meta?

Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …

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