IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Vendor Profile
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Presentations
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Market Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Tech Buyer Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
This IDC Market Perspective explores the worldwide autonomous driving semiconductor market size, drivers, competitive landscape, and market characteristics.
"Autonomous driving semiconductor is a promising market. Nvidia is the biggest ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the worldwide autonomous driving semiconductor market size, drivers, competitive landscape, and market characteristics.
"The autonomous driving semiconductor market is promising. NVIDIA is the ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the China automotive semiconductor market size, drivers, competitive landscape, business development, market characteristics, and typical top players and their business development trends, among others. ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the China semiconductor design market size, drivers, number of companies, business allocation, and market challenges.
"The China market is going to face different challenges, such as resource allocation, ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the market forecast of automotive semiconductors by application and type, shares the development trends of automotive semiconductors, and provides suggestions to semiconductor players.
"Data from ...
本IDC市场看法分析了全球汽车半导体生态系统发展的背景、英伟达生态系统建设情况以及对汽车半导体企业的建议。
“汽车半导体企业应该通过软硬件协同打造业务生态系统,积累高满意度的客户生态系统。更重要的是,汽车半导体企业还需要加强一流技术的研发生态系统的建设,建立丰富而专业的人才生态系统,通过投资和联盟提升行业生态系统。”——IDC亚太区高级研究总监Adela Guo表示。
未来,汽车半导体市场将出现三大趋势。如前所述,市场方面,功率IC、分立器件、ASIC、ASSP、ADAS/AD和信息娱乐系统是推动汽车半导体需求的主要动力。技术方面,需要更先进的节点和超大计算能力,以及更低的功耗,所以,第三代半导体呼之欲出。同时,在商业模式方面,需要更多的系统解决方案;OEM、一级供应商、系统供应商、技术巨头、汽车半导体厂商之间的合作模式将发生改变;接口更多,合作更加紧密,尽早参与项目。
“本IDC市场报告按半导体类型和应用分析预测汽车半导体市场,探寻汽车半导体的发展趋势,并为汽车半导体厂商提供建议。IDC汽车半导体市场数据显示,自动驾驶和信息娱乐系统是最具潜力的应用领域。技术和业务模式都将发生变化,半导体企业应该专注于技术创新、生态系统建立、供应链优化和公司定位,以便在面对激烈的竞争时占据更多的市场份额。”——IDC亚太高级研究总监Adela ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the automotive semiconductor ecosystem's development background, and recent changes to it. This study contains information valuable to users, companies, and society. It also discusses the important role ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes the demand changes of AI chips, driven by AI applications. There are four emerging technologies, namely chiplet, RISC-V, photonic chips, and neurotronic chips, which can provide higher performance AI ...
本次IDC市场报告分析了半导体行业的三大趋势,包括新技术、新形势及新应用。新技术包括先进制程、小芯片和第三代半导体。新形势包括地缘政治的变化,如美国、日本、荷兰的联盟,不同国家的支持政策,以及产能布局的变化。新应用包括汽车、数据中心、工业,它们将会是半导体市场主要的增长驱动因素。
IDC亚太区研究总监Adela Guo表示:"新的发展趋势正在到来,它将重塑半导体产业链和产业生态系统。"她补充道:"不仅政府应该关注这些新的影响因素,确保国家供应链安全,公司和其他行业利益相关者也必须采取行动,来降低风险并提高运营敏捷性和弹性。"
...本次IDC市场演示分析了AI技术的大量应用驱动AI芯片的需求变化,催生4种新兴技术,分别是Chiplet、RISC-V、光子芯片、类脑芯片。他们凭借各自的优势可以提供更高性能的人工智能芯片,从而满足不同应用场景的需求。
IDC亚太区高级研究总监Adela Guo表示:"新的技术趋势正在到来,它将使AI芯片具有高计算能力、更低功耗、更高可靠性和灵活性的性能。"郭女士补充道:"我们建议企业关注这些新兴技术,根据自身优劣势,通过自主开发、投资、并购、合资等方式提前布局这些业务。"
...This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the worldwide automotive semiconductor background of ecosystem development, Nvidia's ecosystem building, and suggestions to automotive semiconductor players.
"Automotive semiconductor players should ...
In the future, the automotive semiconductor market will have three trends. For the market, as mentioned earlier, power ICs, discrete, ASIC, ASSP, ADAS/AD, and infotainment are the major drivers of automotive semiconductors. For technology, ...
This IDC Market Presentation analyzes three emerging trends in the semiconductor industry, including new technologies, such as advanced nanometers, chiplet, and third-generation semiconductors. Geopolitical shifts, such as the alliance of ...
本IDC市场观点探讨了全球电动汽车市场规模、渗透率、驱动因素和不同地区的发展潜力,分析了领先企业及其商业战略,包括发展路径、公司定位、技术战略、供应链战略、国际化战略等。
"IDC的电动汽车市场数据显示,中国、欧洲、北美和一些发展中国家仍有很大潜力。"IDC AP 高级研究总监 Adela Guo表示,"企业要提前制定发展战略,才能在激烈的竞争中取胜。"
This IDC Market Perspective explores the worldwide electric vehicle (EV) market size, penetration rate, drivers, and development potential by different regions and analyzes the top players and their business strategies, including development ...