Data Center Processor Market Monitor

Product objectives

• Track the market every quarter: Revenue, shipments and ASP for data center CPUs, GPUs, AI ASICs and networking processors, with a quarterly near-term and annual long-term outlook
• Explain what drives growth: Revenue split into shipments & ASP by product for key players, tied to hyperscaler CAPEX and AI vs. general-purpose server tray shipments
• Map the competition: Quarterly market share for CPU, GPU + AI ASIC and networking, revenue mix by company, and share projections for key players
• Reconcile demand with supply: Wafer production by processor and logic node, TSMC data center capacity analysis, and foundry CAPEX.
• Anticipate technology shifts: CPU x86 vs. Arm, the agentic CPU market, Nvidia NVSwitch generations and the data center processor roadmap
• Support decisions with transparent data: Key model assumptions made explicit, a quarterly recap with Yole’s take on the news, and links to Yole’s memory, packaging and photonics coverage

Tracking the silicon at the heart of the AI data center

The data center compute stack is being redrawn in real time, as CPUs, GPUs, AI ASICs, DPUs/SmartNICs, and switch silicon compete and combine to keep pace with AI infrastructure buildout. Hyperscalers are no longer content to buy off the shelf: custom accelerators, in-house networking silicon, and heterogeneous compute architectures are reshaping who wins and how value is captured across the stack. Keeping track of this shifting landscape, vendor roadmaps, technology transitions, and where dollars are actually flowing, has become a moving target even for those closest to it. 

The Data Center Processor Monitor is Yole Group's quarterly answer: a continuously updated view across the full processor and networking silicon scope, giving decision-makers the calibrated data and expert access they need to act with confidence rather than react to headlines. 

It also serves as the gateway to Yole Group's complete data center portfolio, linking processor and networking insights to our dedicated analyses of memory, advanced packaging, photonics, and beyond.

 

Agentic AI ignites data center CPU demand as AI ASICs and GPUs push through memory cost pressure

Q2 2026 confirmed the AI buildout is only accelerating: data center CPU revenue rocketed +34.7% quarter-over-quarter, propelled by surging Agentic AI demand, the standout move of the quarter. GPUs held their position as the market's revenue leader, while AI ASIC revenue climbed +23.0%, both markets staying robust even as HBM memory cost pressure intensified across the stack. Tellingly, this growth was primarily ASP-driven rather than volume-driven: shipment growth trailed revenue growth in every segment, as supply tightness and silicon content increase generation after generation pushed prices higher throughout the data center processor market.

What Everyone is Talking About

Data Center Processor market

• Data center market dynamics of the quarter
• Hyperscalers CAPEX
• Quarter near-term
• Annual long-term

Market share

Data center CPU quarterly market share

Data center GPU and AI ASIC quarterly market share

Data center Networking quarterly market share

Data center processor revenue mix by company

Processor technology

• Server tray shipment mix
• GPU
  • Quarter revenue mix by product
  • Quarter shipment mix by product
  • Quarter ASP by product
• AI ASIC
  • Quarter revenue mix by product
  • Quarter shipment mix by product
  • Quarter ASP by product
• CPU
  • CPU x86 / arm
  • Agentic CPU market
  • CPU market data by player
• Networking ASIC 
  • Networking processor shipment mix
  • Networking processor revenue mix
  • Nvidia NVSwitch shipments by generation

Processor supply & manufacturing

• Wafer production by processor
• Wafer production by logic node
• TSMC DC capacity per node
• Foundry CAPEX

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