Applied Physics

• [New] Being built in conjunction with Intel and Cray Computing, the Aurora supercomputer will cost more than half a billion dollars and be turned over to Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago in 2021.
• North America is expected to dominate the BPO market over the forecast period accounting for more than 30% of the total market share owing to the presence of key players, such as IBM, NCR Corporation, CBRE Group, Inc., and TTEC Holdings, Inc., among others.
• Modern cloud technologies powered by Microsoft can be used to deliver dynamic information rather than just static prices - individually for customers and currently for retailers.
• The Department of Energy, in conjunction with the Intel Corporation recently announced that it will be releasing the first exascale supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the U.S. in 2021.
• Intel, with the close collaboration of our partners Argonne National Labs and Cray, will deliver the Aurora supercomputer which will have a performance of one exaFLOP - a quintillion floating point operations per second.
• Security spending to private corporations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others is forecast to exceed $1 trillion in the near future.
• Intel plans to stop selling wireless modem chips for smartphones - including the chips with faster 5G connectivity that Apple had been expected to use next year.
• AWS will continue to dominate the world's cloud market this year, with Microsoft and Google showing growth as well.
• Several large technology firms, such as IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, are heavily invested in blockchain technology development, and the World Economic Forum estimates that, by 2025, 10% of the global gross domestic product will be stored on blockchain technology.
• Microsoft is expected to continue to gain market share in the cloud computing industry, a market which will reach $182 billion by 2022.
• Amazon and Microsoft have been selected to continue competing for Pentagon cloud computing services as part of a contract that could be worth some US$10 billion.
• Amazon remains the undisputed cloud computing champion, crushing its closest competitors Microsoft, IBM, and Google: And its share of the total U.S. e-commerce market is projected to reach 52.4% in 2019, up from 48% last year.
• Uber's global reach and myriad plans - flying cars included - are expected to justify a market value of up to $120 billion which compares with $124 billion for IBM which makes around $9 billion annual net profit, and $140 billion for McDonalds which makes $6 billion a year.
• The Open Manufacturing Platform will be built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, aiming to have four to six partners by the end of the year, to help grow an ecosystem and build future Industry 4.0 solutions.
• The US Department of Energy, Intel, and Cray have signed a contract under which the two companies and DOE's Argonne National Laboratory will develop and build the Aurora supercomputer capable of a quintillion floating point computations per second.
• The IBM Institute for Business Value estimates that by 2021, 98 percent of organizations surveyed plan to adopt hybrid architectures, but just 38 percent will have the procedures and tools they need to operate that environment 1.
• The next year will see AI platforms dominating the public cloud market and cloud providers, especially Google, AWS and Microsoft will further expand their AI cloud portfolio.
• Forrester forecasts that the six largest public cloud providers (Alibaba, AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle) will only grow larger in 2019, while Goldman-Sachs predicts that they will consolidate IaaS, controlling 84% of the market within the next year.
• The global cloud computing market, including cloud platforms, business services and SaaS, will exceed $200 billion in 2019, expanding at more than 20%, the report projects.
• With the public cloud market expected to reach $236 billion by 2020, AWS is positioned to retain a significant lead over its closest competitors - namely, Google, Microsoft and IBM.
• As a defensive strategy to hold onto enterprise accounts, IBM and Oracle will emphasize hybrid cloud solutions that help customers centralize management of Big Data assets distributed between private and public clouds.
• With numerous companies rolling out pilot programmes in 2018, IBM predicts that 65 per cent of banks will have adopted blockchain technology by 2019.

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Last updated: 17 July 2019