DIGITIMES Research believes that the neural processing unit (NPU) will bring new choices for AI accelerator chips in edge devices. Compared to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), NPU has power consumption and price/performance ratio advantage, making it suitable to handle AI computing tasks in edge computing, according to DIGITIMES Research's findings in the new AIoT report.
DIGITIMES Research discovered Nvidia's sales in fiscal year 2025 (February 2024 to January 2025) will exceed US$100 billion from the data center market alone.
With air cooling being the mainstream solution at data centers, 3D Vapor Chambers (VCs) have successfully broken through the theoretical heat dissipation limitations of air cooling and brought higher heat dissipation efficiency to data centers. DIGITIMES Research predicts that 3D VCs will become mainstream air cooling solutions for servers in 2024-2025.
China's smartphone shipments totaled 78.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2023, increasing 23.5% sequentially and 10.5% annually and accounting for 23.9% of global smartphone shipments, higher than the share of 23.1% a year earlier, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from its China smartphone market report.