AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
Some of the fastest growing segments include high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in GPUs, advanced packaging and custom silicon, and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) all scaling rapidly. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); As The Register reported last year, AI spending is actually keeping the US economy out of recession, with datacenter infrastructure and model development providing the only significant growth areas. What could make up the rest of the AI industry revenue?
- ▪Some of the fastest growing segments include high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in GPUs, advanced packaging and custom silicon, and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) all scaling rapidly.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); As The Register reported last year, AI spending is actually keeping the US economy out of recession, with datacenter infrastructure and model
- ▪What could make up the rest of the AI industry revenue?
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