Worldwide HPC-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Forecast, 2020-2026

Hyperion Research forecasts that the worldwide HPC server-based AI market will expand at a robust 27.1% CAGR from 2017-2022 to reach $1.6 billion in 2022, up more than four-and-a-half-fold from $346 million in 2016, the first year in which we tracked this figure. We define the HPC AI market as a subset of the high-performance data analysis (HPDA) market that includes machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and other AI workloads running on HPC servers.

Hyperion Research has been following the rise of Arm processors in HPC for the past few years, tracking the development of processors as well as the evolution of the HPC software ecosystem to take advantage of Arm. Arm recently came into the spotlight with the acceptance of the Fugaku machine at Riken, which claimed the top spot on the Top500. Based on Fujitsu's Arm-based A64fx processor, Fugaku is a powerful and effective HPC system, rising to the top of many major HPC and AI benchmarks. Hyperion Research believes that the Fugaku machine is part of a wider growth of Arm adoption in HPC.