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The Chips Are Definitely Not Down

April 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The semiconductor manufacturing business is absolutely immense. To give the numbers some perspective, in 2024, chip makers generated revenues that were about three quarters of the size of the US defense budget and about two-thirds the size of the social services budget allocated by Congress. …

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A Second Opinion On Future GenAI Spending

April 2, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Two weeks ago, before we began our nightmare travels to get to the 2025 edition of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, we put together an analysis of the AI server and storage spending forecasts put out by the good folks at IDC. …

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GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again

January 23, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity. …

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Cloud Spending Forecast Trimmed For This Year And Next

December 19, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. …

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System Spending Forecast Goes Through The Datacenter Roof

October 28, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The third quarter earnings season starts this week for the hyperscaler and cloud giants, and it is fortuitous that the economists and IT analysts at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending for 2024 and added an jaw-dropping forecast for 2025 and hinted at a brave new world of massive datacenter spending out to 2028. …

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Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent On AI Chips?

July 15, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Everybody knows that companies, particularly hyperscalers and cloud builders but now increasingly enterprises hoping to leverage generative AI, are spending giant round bales of money on AI accelerators and related chips to create AI training and inference clusters. …

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Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom

April 23, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Here is a paradox for you: Spending on infrastructure to support generative AI is apparently booming, as clearly evidenced by the skyrocketing revenues and profits of Nvidia. …

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IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue”

January 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …

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The Interplay Of GDP, Inflation, And IT Spending

August 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Data changes behavior and behavior changes data. It is a phenomenon that is akin to the Observer Effect in physics in that you can’t observe something without changing its behavior. …

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Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows

February 22, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …

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