Press ReleaseInference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, notes Managed inference hit 58.6% of AI platforms infrastructure in CY2025 and scales to 71.7% by CY2030, structurally inverting the 74/26 training split of CY2022.Nick Patience·August 6, 2026
Press ReleaseThe Age of Agentic Silicon: Data Center Chip Market to Reach $1.2 Trillion by 2030Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares findings from new research showing the data center semiconductor market surging to $1.2 trillion by 2030, as agentic AI inference reaches 45% of all chip revenue and reshapes vendor roadmaps.Brendan Burke·July 6, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum Signal: Google and AWS Reach Elite Tier in AI Cloud Platforms as the Competitive Bar RisesNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals key findings: Google and AWS reach Elite status in the new Futurum Signal report, defined by proprietary silicon, inference economics, and advanced agentic infrastructure capabilities.Nick Patience·June 15, 2026
Press Release52% of Compute Decision Makers Use Reasoning Models as Primary AI Model TypeFuturum Research’s 1H 2026 data center semiconductor survey of 824 enterprise decision makers finds 52.3% of model-serving compute now goes to reasoning models, 54.0% describe their AI workload as balanced between training and inference, and tokens per watt has emerged as the primary productivity…Brendan Burke·May 18, 2026
Press ReleaseOrbital Computing Can Reach $1 Trillion Addressable Market by 2030Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, explores how declining launch costs and rising terrestrial power bottlenecks could make orbital data centers a $1 trillion market by 2030.Brendan Burke·April 22, 2026
Press ReleaseAI Grid Constraints Will Push Over 33% of Data Centers Off-Grid by 2030Brendan Burke, Nick Patience, and Olivier Blanchard, Analysts at Futurum, share their insights on how the power generation gap for AI data centers is forcing a permanent shift to off-grid power and high-efficiency hardware to sustain the AI infrastructure sprint.Brendan Burke, Nick Patience, Olivier Blanchard·March 12, 2026
Press ReleaseDo AI Factories Signal a New Mandate for Certified Security? – Report SummaryFernando Montenegro at Futurum explores how the rise of AI factories mandates a shift toward hardware-enforced security and validated reference architectures to protect intelligence workloads without degrading GPU performance.Fernando Montenegro·February 25, 2026
Press ReleaseCan the CPU Market Meet Agentic AI Demand?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, unpacks the drivers of the CPU shortage in the data center market. Demand for agentic AI accelerated hyperscaler procurement of CPUs, leading to a favorable long-term growth outlook.Brendan Burke·February 24, 2026
Press ReleaseGPU Alternatives Poised to Outgrow GPUs in 2026Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes new survey data that enterprise spending on XPUs, a diverse set of AI-specialized accelerators, will outpace GPUs in 2026.Brendan Burke·January 26, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum’s New Silicon Data Helps Vendors Understand Complex AI Hardware Supply Chain for Strategic Planning — Report SummaryRay Wang, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Technology, shares insights on Futurum’s new Silicon Tracker dataset, aiming to help industry leaders understand the AI hardware supply chain.November 13, 2025
Press ReleaseGPUs Cornerstone, XPUs Rise: $546B Data Center Semiconductor MarketRay Wang, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Technology at Futurum, shares the key findings and insights from the newly launched 2H 2025 Data Center Semiconductor Decision Maker Survey and Q2 2025 Data Center Spot Check Report.November 12, 2025
Press ReleaseHow Intel–NVIDIA Partnership Could Reshape the Semiconductor Supply Chain – Report SummaryRay Wang, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Technologies, and Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, share their perspectives on the broad impacts of the recent Intel–NVIDIA partnership across the semiconductor supply chain.Nick Patience·September 24, 2025
Press ReleaseToo Important to Ignore: Unpacking Advanced Packaging for AI Semiconductor – Report SummaryRay Wang, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on advanced packaging for AI accelerators, including development, adoption timelines, and real-world use cases.August 27, 2025
Press ReleaseData Center Semiconductor Market Is Set to Exceed $500 Billion in 2029, Pushed by Global Compute BuildoutsRay Wang, Research Director of Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Tech at Futurum, reveals key findings from comprehensive data center semiconductor market research forecasting the global data center semiconductor market to surge to reach $583B in 2029 with a 21.6% CAGR.August 25, 2025
Press ReleaseNVIDIA Becomes First to Reach $4 Trillion Market Cap — The Foundational Pillar of Accelerated Computing and AI InfrastructureRay Wang, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Technology at Futurum, shared his analysis on why NVIDIA became the first company to reach a 4 trillion market cap, and the outlook of the company in the near future.July 17, 2025
Press ReleaseNew Categories of High-Performance AI PCs Are Here to Do What Data Centers Can’tOlivier 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·June 24, 2025
Press ReleaseNVIDIA’s European AI Sovereignty Push: Infrastructure, Partnerships, and Policy—Report SummaryNick Patience at Futurum shares insights on NVIDIA’s European AI sovereignty expansion, including 20 AI factories, strategic government partnerships, and industrial transformation initiatives reshaping Europe’s AINick Patience·June 23, 2025
Press ReleaseGPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025: NVIDIA and Partners Highlight the Value of Data in Building Agentic AI SolutionsBrad Shimmin, VP Data & Analytics at The Futurum Group shares insights on NVIDIA GTC 2025, focusing on the new AI Data Platform and partner efforts to accelerate agentic AI through optimized data infrastructure for complex workloads.Brad Shimmin·April 9, 2025
Press ReleaseNVIDIA: Beyond Chips – A Foundational Infrastructure Company – Report SummaryNick Patience, Vice President & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines how NVIDIA is transforming from being a chip manufacturer to a foundational infrastructure provider as Jensen Huang unveils a four-year product roadmap and vision for AI factories.Nick Patience·March 31, 2025
Press Release4Q 2024: Record Sales of $32.6B for Data Center AI Processors and AcceleratorsRichard Gordon, VP & Practice Lead for Semiconductors at Futurum Group, analyses the 4Q 2024 market for AI Chipsets in data Centers which saw another quarter of sequential growth driven by surging demand for high-performance AI compute solutions.March 28, 2025