(b) Inspur revenues include revenues and server units for Inspur Power Systems. Inspur is reported as a separate company with revenues including Inspur OEM systems and Inspur Power Systems locally developed and branded systems revenue. Per the JV agreement, Inspur Power Commercial System Co., Ltd., has total registered capital of RMB 1 billion, with Inspur investing RMB 510 million for a 51% equity stake, and IBM investing RMB 490 million for the remaining 49% equity stake.
In addition to the table above, a graphic illustrating the worldwide market share of the top 5 server companies in 2Q21 and 2Q20 is available by viewing this press release on IDC.com.
Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Server Unit Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, Second Quarter of 2021 |
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Company |
2Q21 Unit Shipments |
2Q21 Market Share |
2Q20 Unit Shipments |
2Q20 Market Share |
2Q21/2Q20 Unit Growth |
1. Dell Technologies |
529,804 |
16.4% |
432,556 |
13.4% |
22.5% |
2. HPE/H3Ca |
446,168 |
13.8% |
456,642 |
14.2% |
-2.3% |
3. Inspur/Inspur Power Systemsb |
324,717 |
10.1% |
353,329 |
11.0% |
-8.1% |
4. Lenovo |
201,554 |
6.2% |
193,086 |
6.0% |
4.4% |
5. Super Micro |
158,580 |
4.9% |
152,319 |
4.7% |
4.1% |
ODM Direct |
1,039,601 |
32.2% |
1,096,765 |
34.0% |
-5.2% |
Rest of Market |
525,948 |
16.3% |
538,402 |
16.7% |
-2.3% |
Total |
3,226,372 |
100.0% |
3,223,098 |
100.0% |
0.1% |
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, September 9, 2021 |
Top Server Market Findings
On a geographic basis, Asia/Pacific (excluding China and Japan) revenue was up 8.6% year over year. Server revenue in China grew 3.4% over the previous year, while Japan declined 21.2% year over year. Latin America revenue grew 4.6%, North America revenue declined 5.7%, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) revenue declined 2.3% year over year.
Revenue generated from x86 servers decreased 2.2% in 2Q21 to $21.4 billion. Non-x86 server revenue declined 4.5% year over year to around $2.3 billion.
IDC's Server Taxonomy
IDC's Server Taxonomy maps the eleven price bands within the server market into three price ranges: volume servers, midrange servers and high-end servers. The revenue data presented in this release is stated as vendor revenue for a server system. IDC presents data in vendor revenue to determine market share position. Vendor revenue represents those dollars recognized by multi-user system and server vendors for ISS (initial server shipment) and upgrade units sold through direct and indirect channels and includes the following embedded server components: Frame or cabinet and all cables, processors, memory, communications boards, operating system software, other bundled software and initial internal and external disk shipments.
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global server market on a quarterly basis. The Tracker includes quarterly unit shipments and revenues (both vendor revenue and value of shipments), segmented by vendor, family, model, region, operating system, price band, CPU type, and architecture. The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker is part of the Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker, which provides a holistic total addressable market view of the five key enabling infrastructure technologies for the datacenter (servers, external enterprise storage systems, purpose-built appliances: HCI and PBBA, and datacenter switches).
For more information about IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, please contact Lidice Fernandez at 305-351-3057 or
lfernandez@idc.com .