Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increase of just 39 percent. The amended prediction is due to the “rapid emergence of multicore architectures and virtualization technologies” that have significantly restricted global x86 server shipments as customers purchase fewer but more powerful systems, IDC analysts said.
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Virtualization Takes Toll on x86 Server Sales
Posted by: Walaika Haskins March 21, 2007 01:32 PMTechnology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increase of just 39 percent. The amended prediction is due to the “rapid emergence of multicore architectures and virtualization technologies” that have significantly restricted global x86 server shipments as customers purchase fewer but more powerful systems, IDC analysts said.