AI Edge Computing Market

AI Edge Computing Market Statistics: 2030

The AI edge computing market size was valued at $9,096.0 million in 2020, and is projected to reach $ 59,633.0 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 21.2%. Ability of the AI edge to overcome cloud computing challenges, rise in demand for real-time operations, and proliferation of edge AI-enabled devices primarily drive the growth of the global AI edge computing market.

Although the COVID-19 does not have significant negative impact on the growth of the market, the outbreak of COVID-19 will surely provide numerous opportunities for the market to grow in the forecasted period. These opportunities includes a surge in demand for AI edge computing in enterprises due to remote work initiatives, increase in healthcare applications, and introduction of innovative AI edge computing solutions.

On the basis of component, the hardware segment dominated the AI edge computing market in 2020, and is expected to maintain its dominance in the upcoming years. This is due to rise in applications of AI edge computing hardware or physical components such as processors, servers, switches, and routers. In addition, proliferation of smart phones, cameras, robots, and others drives the growth of the hardware segment. However, the services segment is expected to witness highest growth rate during the forecast period. 

By organization size, the large enterprises segment dominated the growth in the AI edge computing industry in 2020, and is expected to maintain its dominance in the upcoming years. This is due to significant growth in deployment of edge computing use cases in large enterprises to support IoT or immersive experiences. 

There is proliferation of AI edge computing in large enterprises across the industries such as automotive, health care, and manufacturing. However, the small and medium enterprises segment is expected to experience the highest growth rate during the forecast period.

North America dominates the AI edge computing market. Growth of the market in this region is attributed to several factors such as rise in need for faster processing devices coupled with the huge government funding on innovative technologies, increased number of IoT devices, and a strong technical base. However, Asia-Pacific is expected to witness highest growth rate during the forecast period owing to the proliferation of connected systems fueled by ongoing trend of smart offices and homes in the region along with the government-driven infrastructural projects. 

The report focuses on the growth prospects, restraints, and global AI edge computing market share. The study provides Porter’s five forces analysis of the global AI edge computing market forecast to understand the impact of various factors such as bargaining power of suppliers, competitive intensity of competitors, the threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, and bargaining power of buyers on the global AI edge computing market trends.

Segment Review

The AI edge computing market is segmented on the basis of component, organization size, application, industry vertical, and region. On the basis of component, the market is segmented into hardware, software, and services. According to the organization size, the market is fragmented into large enterprises and small & medium sized enterprises. In terms of application, the market is divided into IIoT, remote monitoring, content delivery, video analytics, AR&VR, and others. Depending on industry vertical, it is segregated into automotive, healthcare, chemicals, oil & gas, manufacturing and robotics, public infrastructure, transportation & logistics, and others. Region wise, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.

COVID-19 Impact Analysis

The AI edge computing market was valued at $9,096.00 million in 2020, and is projected to reach $59,633.0 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 21.2%. The current estimation of 2027 is projected to be higher than pre-COVID-19 estimates. During the COVID-19 pandemic, edge computing and edge data centers are playing a vital role in conveying stored content and cloud computing resources across the globe. In addition, edge computing is ending up to be a life-saving technology for the medical care industry due to different IoT medical applications.

The advantages of edge computing have become more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall lockdown has constrained organizations to move toward digitalization for the arrangement of work from home officers to their employee. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is altogether driving the interest for edge computing as the main technology companies are integrating automation and intelligence into their organizations.

Top impacting factors    

The global AI edge computing industry is influenced by several factors such as ability of the AI edge to overcome cloud computing challenges, rise in demand for real-time operations, and proliferation of edge AI-enabled devices. In addition, a number of lucrative benefits offered by AI edge computing such as faster computing and insights and better data security fuel the growth of this market. However, need for high investment and shortage of skilled IT professionals are projected to hamper growth of the market. On the other hand, advent of the 5G Network connectivity and emerging applications of AI edge computing are estimated to be opportunistic for the AI Edge computing market growth.

Proliferation of edge AI-enabled devices 

There is proliferation of edge AI-enabled devices such as smart phones, smart speakers, laptops, self-driven cars, drones, robots, and surveillance cameras that use video analytics. For instance, the developed countries have about 90% of mobile phone penetration while according to the GSMA report, by 2025, smartphone penetration is projected to reach 80% globally. The countries contributing to this significant increase includes, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan. Edge AI eradicates the need for sending huge amounts of data across network of such smart devices; thus, improving the user experience. Hence, proliferation of edge AI-enabled devices projected to drive the AI edge computing market growth.

Emerging applications of AI edge computing 

AI edge computing has enabled to power mission-critical, scalable, and private AI applications. For instance, recently, Intel, an American multinational corporation and technology company developed Visual Processing Units, the special co-processors to power high-performance computer vision applications to edge devices.

In addition, AI Healthcare applications including remote diagnostics and surgery, along with the monitoring of patient vital signs is mainly based on edge devices that perform AI at the edge. On the other hand, emerging applications such as smart factories, intelligent transportation systems, and smart energy coupled with entertainment applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality are projected to create lucrative growth opportunities for the global AI edge computing market. 

Key Benefits For Stakeholders

• This study includes the Global AI edge computing market analysis, trends, and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
• The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and Global AI edge computing market opportunity.
• The Global AI edge computing market size is quantitatively analyzed from 2020 to 2030 to highlight the financial competency of the industry.
• Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in Global AI edge computing industry.

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