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Gartner Says Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 7.5 Percent in the Third Quarter of 2015, While Shipments Increased 9.2 Percent

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3174018

Mr. Hewitt said, "x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 9.2 percent in shipments and 9.7 percent in revenue year over year. RISC/Itanium Unix server revenue declined 11.5 percent in the third quarter, while shipments grew 1.1 percent. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 3.5 percent in terms of revenue."

Meanwhile, IDC says:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS40674215

December 2 , 2015 – According to the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker , vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 5.1% year over year to $13.4 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. During this quarter, revenue grew in rack optimized, blade, and density-optimized servers, while towers declined. Worldwide server shipments totaled 2.49 million units in 3Q15, an increase of 4.5% when compared with the third quarter of 2014.
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Demand for x86 servers improved again in 3Q15 with revenues increasing 7.1% year over year to $11.5 billion worldwide as unit shipments increased 4.5% to 2.47 million servers.

No surprise here, x86's immense stranglehold* over servers continues to
strengthen. Come on ARM chippers, toss yet more hard cash down the
toilet trying to break into this market.

*85.8% revenue share, 99.2% unit share by IDC figures.