Security News > 2020 > December > Server market revenue reached $22.6 billion in 3Q20

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market grew 2.2% year over year to $22.6 billion during the third quarter of 2020, according to IDC. Worldwide server shipments declined 0.2% year over year to nearly 3.1 million units in 3Q20. Volume server revenue was up 5.8% to $19.0 billion, while midrange server revenue declined 13.9% to $2.6 billion, and high-end servers declined by 12.6% to $937 million.

"Global demand for enterprise servers was a bit muted during the third quarter of 2020 although we did see areas of strong demand," said Paul Maguranis, senior research analyst, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC. "From a regional perspective, server revenue within China grew 14.2% year over year. And worldwide revenues for servers running AMD CPUs were up 112.4% year over year while ARM-based servers grew revenues 430.5% year over year, albeit on a very small base of revenue."

Dell Technologies and HPE/New H3C Group were tied for the top position in the 3Q20 worldwide server market with 16.7% and 15.9% revenue share respectively.

Revenue generated from x86 servers increased 1.6% in 3Q20 to just below $21.0 billion.

Non-x86 server revenue grew 10.4% year over year to around $1.6 billion.

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