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IDC Makes Ebullient AI Spending Forecast Out To 2029

September 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Ever since Nvidia reported its most recent financial results, where company co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang said that there would be somewhere between $3 trillion and $4 trillion in spending on AI between now and the end of the decade, we have been on the prowl for any market research that backs up this claim or is its source. …

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Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy

July 1, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

As we have said many times here at The Next Platform, the only way to predict the actual future is to live it. …

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Nvidia Passes Cisco And Rivals Arista In Datacenter Ethernet Sales

June 23, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

There is not one Ethernet business, but several, and now, with the evolution of Ethernet switches for back-end AI cluster networks, there is a new one that has the possibility to dominate revenues and profits. …

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A Deep Dive Into Datacenter And Server Spending Forecasts

April 7, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Spending on AI systems in 2024 just utterly blew by the expectations of the major market researchers and those who dabble in metrics like we do. …

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AI Reshapes The Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market

March 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on AI Reshapes The Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market

Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph Ethernet switching in the datacenter once again. …

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AI Infrastructure Spending: Is The Boom Chemical Or Nuclear?

March 14, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The IT infrastructure market is undergoing its own kind of climate change thanks to the overheating of the market due to the GenAI boom. …

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Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift

January 6, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift

The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …

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Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher

October 7, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The AI boom is going sonic, and it looks like we had all better cover our ears if we want to be able to hear by the end of the holiday season if the prognostications of the box counters at IDC are correct. …

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Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession

October 1, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession

No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …

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The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending

September 13, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending

For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. …

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