High-performance computing driven Q2 server market increased 15.4%

[Tenkine server channel November 8] According to a new study by IDC on the China X86 server market, China's X86 server shipments reached nearly 364,000 units in the second quarter of 2013, up 15.4% from the second quarter of 2012. Meanwhile, in the second quarter of 2013, China's X86 server market manufacturer sales reached 1.06 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year growth rate reached 19.6%. In terms of shipments and sales, international manufacturers have been greatly challenged by local manufacturers.

"The growth in the market this quarter comes mainly from strong demand from the Internet industry and the procurement needs of government-invested high-performance computer projects, and demand remains weak in the two sectors," said Peng, IDC's research manager for enterprise-level systems in China. "Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7837.html in the first half of 2013" > China's slowing economic growth, weak export growth and a slowdown in fixed asset investment have curbed the procurement needs of X86 servers. "The government's transition and the holding of the two sessions have led to a longer period of government investment decisions. Growth in the government sector has slowed over the last several quarters. "IDC China Enterprise-level Systems Research analyst Tri Juan Juan added.

In the second quarter of 2013, 2-way server shipments increased 24.4%, much higher than the X86 server market average growth rate. The 2-way server has become the driving force for overall market growth, but the rapid growth of 2-way rack products is largely due to the purchase of Internet companies and the Tianhe second super computer system developed by the National defense hkust.

From the industry point of view, the media and government sector shipments in the second quarter of 2013 still accounted for more than half of the overall market.

1. The Internet industry in the media industry has grown by about 50%,bat (ie, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) three users in the second quarter of the total procurement of the Internet industry accounted for 60%. Local server manufacturers occupy more than half of the market share in the Internet industry.

2. The demand for X86 servers in the financial sector comes from the new channels (online banking, electronic banking), the upgrading of the core systems of banks, the risk management and the demand for business systems such as large data. Banks still have huge demand for high-end products, especially in urban rural commercial banks. Local server makers have started to lay out the financial sector.

"With the rapid increase in government revenue in the second half of the year, as well as information consumption, broadband China and other strategies gradually landing, I believe that since the 3721.html" >2014 year, we will see the Government and related sectors of the rapid rebound in demand, but this series of policies is difficult in the second half will have a significant Peng said.