Worldwide smartphone shipments will fall 16.7% in 2026, the steepest annual contraction ever recorded, even as total market value grows 6.3% to $613 billion.
IDC's Nabila Popal, Francisco Jeronimo, and Ryan Reith trace the shift to the memory crisis: NAND and DRAM costs are up
"Does your enterprise AI have an opinion?"
IDC’s Joe Bradley sat down with @Alec_Coughlin on AI with Alec to discuss the evolution of enterprise AI, governance, and IDC Quanta.
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AI has made it easier to get an answer. It's made it harder to trust one.
The firms making the highest-stakes bets in tech already know the difference. This Thursday, Laurie Buczek shows you why "sourced" is about to matter more than "fast."
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When AI starts making decisions autonomously across critical business functions, the governance frameworks built for traditional software won't be enough.
IDC's Matt Eastwood keynotes the IDC AI and Data Summit in Chicago on exactly that challenge — scaling agentic AI while
Some companies built leaderboards ranking employees by tokens burned. That's tokenmaxxing, and by most accounts, it's dying.
Airbnb's CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle says his team stopped counting tokens and started tracking quality instead. Usage, in his words, "took care of itself."
