IDC's Worldwide Emerging Systems Infrastructure Technologies Taxonomy, 2025

This IDC study categorizes the market for the most relevant emerging technologies in infrastructure systems by deployment location, system type, and subsystem, including semiconductor devices. As with all taxonomy documents, this taxonomy will be continually revised and edited to ensure its applicability to market offerings."This initial IDC's Emerging Systems Infrastructure Technologies taxonomy provides the definitions and segmentations used by IDC analysts to track the technologies that will have the greatest impact on the rapidly evolving datacenter landscape," said Jim Hines, research director, Enabling Technologies and Semiconductors at IDC. "The document serves as a guideline for users to better understand IDC's Emerging Systems Infrastructure Technologies research and provides a framework and set of definitions for tracking this market."