Worldwide Server Forecast, 2014 - 2018

This research report presents shipment volume and value forecasts and recent quarter review of the Taiwanese server system and server motherboard industries. The report includes server full system, barebone, and motherboard shipment volume, shipment value, ASP, volume and share by maker and by price point, and manufacturer volume ranking. The report analyzes shipment by CPU architecture and CPU count. Production locations, shipment destinations, business types, and customer portfolios are also examined. The content of this report is based on primary data obtained through interviews with server makers. The report finds that shipment volume of the Taiwanese server system and server motherboard industries grew sequentially and year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2013, bolstered mainly by the increasing demand for servers in large-scale datacenters and emerging markets as well as the year-end spike in spending. 

In addition to their shipments for branded vendors, Taiwanese makers' shipment share for white-box and Chinese clients is increasing year-after-year. In the first quarter of 2014, it is anticipated that the industry's shipment volume will decline slightly in the first quarter of 2014, pick up in the second quarter, and sustain modest growth momentum throughout 2014.