After the financial crisis of 2008 and companies and business groups turning to digital business, the amou of server sales has been accompanied by significa growth every year. Let’s see the peak of this growth in 2020, which can be attributed to the corona virus epidemic. But it seems that this growing trend has stopped after 15 years and companies show less desire to use eerprise servers.
According to a new report from research firm Omdia, the priorities of businesses are changing, and many of those that previously used the services of large cloud providers are moving towards artificial ielligence-based computing.
According to some analysts, companies and cloud service providers are very concerned about missing out on a wave of market opportunities brought about by iellige chatbots like Chatgpt. As a result, these ensembles lead to the training of artificial ielligence models. Many buyers have delayed getting general-purpose servers, preferring to make a significa investme in AI servers.
Examining market data provides us with ieresting results. In the first quarter of 2023, only 2.8 million servers were sold, which is significaly lower than the seasonal sales average. In fact, the decline in server sales from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of this year was the largest decline in server sales in history.
Meanwhile, Omdia analysts predict a 12% decline in server sales in 2023, as the sales of servers configured with artificial ielligence processors have seen an unprecedeed increase. The demand for Microsoft, Google and Meta servers has grown a lot in the first quarter of this year, and this acceptance by businesses can be attributed to the focus of these technology gias on artificial ielligence programs such as Bard, Copilot and I-JEPA.
Another reason for the decrease in the sales rate of servers is the increase in their average useful life. Analyzes show that the useful life of a server is now 6.2 years, which was only 4.1 years a decade ago. Meanwhile, according to some European server providers, the useful life of servers sometimes reaches 9 to 10 years.
The results of these reports show that although companies’ need for computing is increasing; But companies prefer to use calculations based on artificial ielligence models and they are looking for their future in this technology.
