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Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026
In late 2025, the global semiconductor ecosystem is experiencing an unprecedented memory chip shortage with knock-on effects for the device manufacturers and end users that could persist well into 2027. DRAM prices have surged significantly...
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The Rise of Chinese Smart Vacuum Giants…and the Fall (and Sale) of iRobot
The global smart vacuum cleaner market didn’t just grow in 2025, it reorganized. Shipments reached 17.42 million units in the first three quarters of the...
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A Letter from Crawford Del Prete
After 38 years with IDC, I have decided that it’s the right time to step into the next chapter of my career. Beginning in January, I will transition out of my...
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How Agentic and GenAI Will Advance Smarter, More Resilient Cities
As the IDC Government Insights team developed this year’s IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Smart Cities and Communities 2026 Predictions, one trend became clear: cities of all...
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Top Five Predictions for Enterprise Communications in 2026
In 2026, enterprise communications will move forward through practical AI adoption, deeper data integration, flexible pricing, verticalised innovation, and hybrid deployment models.
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The AI Consumer: Augmented, Inevitable, Empowered
In 2026, the consumer technology landscape will not be defined by any single breakthrough, but by the convergence of many. Artificial intelligence, once a novelty,...
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Orchestrating Supply Chain Ecosystems in the Age of Agentic AI
The linear supply chain, which was optimized solely for cost, speed, and sequential handoffs, is over. In this model, if one link breaks, the entire...
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Microsoft 365 Price Increase Announcement December 2025
IDC reports that on December 5th 2025 Microsoft announced a set of significant price increases to a number of its common Microsoft 365 Suites
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Agent Adoption: The IT Industry’s Next Great Inflection Point
The IT industry stands on the brink of one of its most transformative eras, triggering major consolidations in many long-standing sectors and the emergence of...
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Converged workloads: A framework for building the real-time enterprise
Many executive teams are asking the same question: How can we shorten the distance between a business event and a decision that matters? IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide...
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