Accelerator Card Market

Accelerator cards improve the overall performance of devices such as servers, workstations, supercomputers, cloud servers, HPC servers, laptops, and tablets. With exponential growth in data generation, data center operators have to establish a balance between the need for performance at scale and operational efficiencies. The use of AI-based services and increased consumer-driven data positively influence the growth of the accelerator card market. The study also indicates that manufacturing industry would expect substantial growth in the accelerator card market due to the increasing need for high-performance devices and the adoption of easy-to-use data compression techniques. There has been a considerable increase in the demand for accelerator cards globally. Increasing cloud computing applications, growth in private and public cloud data, and growing demand for artificial intelligence, financial analysis image and video processing are the driving factors for the accelerator card market. However, high cost and lack of technical expertise and a number of advances in technologies are expected to restrain the growth of the accelerator card market.

The global accelerator card market has been broadly classified on the basis of accelerator type, processor type, and application. By accelerator type, the accelerator card market has been segmented into high-performance computing accelerators and cloud accelerator. Among these, high-performance computing accelerator cards dominated the market in 2018. By processor type, the accelerator card market has been segmented into graphics processing units (GPU), central processing units (CPU), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The FPGA segment is expected to grow with the highest CAGR during the forecast period. By application, the market has been divided into data analytics, machine learning, video and image processing, financial computing, mobile phones, and others. Under this, the data analytics segment dominated the market in 2018.

The global accelerator card market comprises various manufacturers, government research firms, universities, and technical institutes that engage in developing and advancing in the semiconductor industry. The major players considered in the scope of the global accelerator card market are NVIDIA Corporation, Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Xilinx Inc., Oracle Corporation, Fujitsu Ltd, Cisco Systems Inc., HP Development Company, L.P, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, IBM Corporation, Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, and Kalray Corporation among others. The competition in the accelerator card market is rapidly increasing owing to the entry of new players in the market serving various application areas