Company news from The Futurum Group, and the research announcements that go out with new Futurum Intelligence data.
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Enterprise buyers are trading up: 80% of IT decision makers are more likely to buy AI PCs than six months ago, versus 47% for traditional PCs, with budgets growing 18.8%, according to Futurum’s 1H 2026 survey of 818 global enterprises.
Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 edge silicon market forecast finds a $278B market heading to $340B by 2030, with Robotics leading at 9.9% CAGR and IoT registering a near-flat -0.2% CAGR as destinations diverge sharply.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares a new insight into how the ROI of AI PCs’ connection to measurable productivity gains could significantly shorten PC purchase cycles in the enterprise.
Olivier Blanchard, Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on the AI PC market, projecting a deceleration in the rate of enterprise adoption in 2026 following the Windows 10 EOS deadline.
Olivier Blanchard, Practice Lead and Research Director at Futurum shares his insights into what the first logical “killer app” for AI PCs could and should be: complementing the AI PC ecosystem’s existing text and keyboard-based AI assistant user interface with a natural language, voice-based…
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the AI PC category’s increasingly dangerous software problem, and discusses why the absence of compelling, remarkable, disruptive on-device AI-enabled features risks throttling the market potential of AI PCs and hybrid AI as a…
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum shares his/her insights on specific AI PC buyer preferences, prioritizing affordability and the prevalent use of cloud-based AI applications rather than cutting-edge system performance.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director for AI Devices and Edge Semiconductors at Futurum, shares his insights on how the absence of compelling on-device AI user experiences is beginning to hurt the adoption of AI-capable devices such as AI PCs and Smart glasses.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, discusses the importance of high-performance AI PCs to the world of hybrid AI solutions.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, zooms in on new types of AI PC dubbed “AI developer workstations,” and explains how these new high-performance AI PCs, which pack AI workload capabilities generally only available in data centers into desktop and deskside form factors, are…
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum shares his insights on the resurgence of Chromebooks in the age of the AI PC, and the ways that Google could leverage its new AI-enabled Chromebook Plus devices and increasingly attractive solutions ecosystem to take another crack at the enterprise…
Olivier Blanchard, Practice Lead and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why Microsoft’s vision for the Copilot+ PC ecosystem might be getting not only outpaced by hardware innovation and competitive forces across the AI PC ecosystem, but also held back by Copilot’s inability, at…
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum shares his/her insights on the global AI PC’s latest numbers, which point to not only an acceleration of AI PC adoption, but very specific PC buyer preferences, from price bands and system performance to the types of AI use cases that are driving…
Olivier Blanchard, Practice Lead and Research Director at Futurum shares his insights on why Microsoft’s vision for the Copilot+ PC ecosystem might be getting not only outpaced by hardware innovation and competitive forces across the AI PC ecosystem, but also held back by Copilot’s inability, at…