IDC's Worldwide AI Accelerator Taxonomy, 2022

IDC's Worldwide AI Accelerator Taxonomy

• Figure: AI Accelerator Primary Segments

AI Accelerator Taxonomy Changes for 2022

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

• Deployment Location

• Figure: Internet System Deployment Landscape

• IoT/Endpoints

• Primary Clients

• Edge Infrastructure

• Heavy Edge Infrastructure

• Light Edge Infrastructure

• Communications Infrastructure

• Datacenter/Cloud

• AI Activity

• Training

• Inferencing

• Training and Inferencing

• Industry Segment

• Automotive

• Consumer

• Energy

• Healthcare

• Industrial

• Retail

• Smart City

• Transportation

• AI Functional Capability

• AI Capable

• AI Efficient

• Host Processors

• Microprocessor Unit

• Microcontroller Unit

• Application-Specific Standard Product

• Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

• Field-Programmable Gate Array

• Chip Structure

• Discrete Accelerator

• Integrated Accelerator

• Accelerators

• Application-Specific Standard Product

• Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

• Digital Signal Processor

• Field-Programmable Gate Array (as an Accelerator)

• Graphics Processing Unit

• Neural Processing Unit

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• Related Research

• Synopsis