Global server market tipped to grow 12.8%By Meryl Kao / Staff reporterThe global server market is expected to grow 12.8 percent annually this year, with artificial intelligence (AI) servers projected to account for 16.5 percent, driven by continued investment in AI infrastructure by major cloud service providers (CSPs), market researcher TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said yesterday. The growth in the global server market this year would be driven by continued momentum in AI servers, with the rapid expansion of AI inference applications in particular fueling rising demand for storage and edge AI servers, Kung said. Inference-based AI servers are expected to account for 44 percent of total AI server shipments this year, with the share projected to rise above 50 percent by 2029, he said. As CSPs and enterprises expand AI applications across endpoints, the market is expected to develop along two main tracks, Kung said. The first involves broader deployment of GPU-based systems, such as Nvidia’s platforms, as well as in-house ASIC rack solutions to support large language model training and generative AI inference, he said.
