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RSAC 2026 Showcases Endpoint Management and Security Convergence with New AI-Enabled Automation Tools

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC's 2026 NVIDIA GTC Roundup

Linn Huang — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

From March 16 to 19,San Jose, California, played host to NVIDIA's GTC showcase. The event brought together developers, engineers, and other IT professionals to explore the latest and greatest in AI and accelerated compute.

Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Semiconductor Market Share by Vendor, Phone Generation, and Semiconductor Type, 4Q25

Phil Solis — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Tablet contains quarterly (2012 to the previous quarter) market size and share by vendor, the air interface generation of the mobile phone (highest generation supported), and major semiconductor type. It contains shipments by vendor for some semiconductor types and revenue by vendor for all semiconductor types. The major semiconductor components covered are:

Discrete application processors (shipments and revenue)
Discrete baseband processors (shipments and revenue)
Integrated baseband processors (shipments and revenue)
Transceivers (revenue)
RF front end (revenue for discrete and modules, including power amplifiers, LNAs, switches, and filters)
mmWave semiconductors and modules (revenue)

Major vendors covered include:

Apple
Broadcom
Google
HiSilicon
MediaTek
Qorvo
Qualcomm
Samsung
Skyworks
UNISOC
And other vendors in historical quarters that have left the market

AI-Driven Network Operations and Maintenance

Hyder Aftab — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation discusses how telecom operators in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (META) are navigating a shift from legacy operations and maintenance (O&M) practices toward AI-driven and autonomous network operations. IDC survey data from META operators show that integration complexity and high operating costs are the top OSS/BSS pain points, while increasing AI and automation capabilities consistently emerge as a key investment driver across O&M domains. Opex reduction and service quality improvement top the list of operators' AI initiative goals. AIOps adoption reflects a market in transition; the majority of operators report partial adoption, with tools deployed at the domain level rather than as integrated cross-domain platforms. GenAI engagement is broad across all use cases surveyed, though production deployment rates remain modest, consistent with a market where POC and implementation activity is ahead of full-scale rollout.

Progress toward Level 4 autonomous operations varies by network domain. RAN shows the greatest advances, while core networks and datacenter environments are in the earlier stages — reflecting multi-vendor complexity and legacy dependencies. Deployments at STC, MTN, and China Mobile provide reference points for what autonomous O&M delivers at scale — including reduced fault resolution times, higher network reliability, and energy savings — with unified orchestration platforms as the common enabler in each case. OSS/BSS interoperability remains the most cited integration barrier, with implications for service assurance, GenAI, and agentic AI adoption timelines. Vendors that address cross-domain integration, align with open standards (e.g., TMF Open APIs and CAMARA), and adapt solution design to the maturity differences between markets in the Gulf and the broader MEA region are well-positioned for the next phase of operator investment.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Are Communications Service Providers Capitalizing on Their High-Performance Network for the Surge in Edge AI Adoption?

Ajeet Das — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the evolving use cases for edge AI and organizations' top criteria for supporting AI workloads at the edge. It contains data from IDC's January 2026 Worldwide AI in Networking Special Report based on responses from 330 enterprises worldwide.

"As edge AI maturity advances, the selection criteria for enterprise solutions are shifting away from basic hardware toward high-performance connectivity and data offloading. The market is recognizing that 'intelligence at the edge' is only as effective as the network supporting it. In 2026, the winners in the space — particularly in etlecom and retail — are those prioritizing low-latency wired and wireless integration to handle the specialized AI workloads that on-device compute cannot manage alone." — Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Infrastructure at IDC

The Agentic Pivot: Findings from RELEX Live London 2026

Lorenzo Veronesi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides an overview of key manufacturing topics discussed at the RELEX Live event in London on March 5, 2026. It focuses on developments in the company’s advanced production planning and scheduling (APS) and agentic AI solutions.

“Reactive ‘firefighting’ is being replaced by self-learning systems that prioritize foresight and autonomous execution,” said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

AI Adoption in Endpoint Device Management Operations and Tools

Phil Hochmuth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective looks at how enterprises IT operations teams plan to use AI-enabled endpoint device management tools to address problems existing in today’s enterprise patch management environments.

"With the introduction of advanced AI-based capabilities into endpoint management teams arsenal of management tools, enterprise IT teams may actually be on the cusp of addressing the time-to-patch gap in a meaningful way." — Research Vice President Phil Hochmuth, Endpoint Device Management and Enterprise Mobility, IDC.

European Enterprise Communication Service Provider Profile: AT&T Business

Masarra Mohamed — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an in-depth analysis of AT&T Business’ strategy, operations, and market positioning in the enterprise communications sector. It begins with IDC’s view, highlighting AT&T’s focus on delivering secure, scalable global connectivity and enabling digital transformation for multinational corporations. It first provides an overview of AT&T Business’ organizational structure, leadership team, and strategic priorities, emphasizing its role as a network-enabled technology provider integrating connectivity, edge computing, and cybersecurity. It then examines financial performance, noting the shift toward next-generation connectivity, which now accounts for 60% of AT&T Business Solutions’ revenue, despite overall revenue pressure from legacy declines. The presentation also assesses AT&T Business’ competitive positioning compared with Europe-headquartered telcos. It also details AT&T’s global infrastructure assets, portfolio, partner ecosystem, and go-to-market and messaging strategies, which enable the company to deliver consistent managed services across more than 200 countries. Finally, IDC recommends that AT&T enhance marketing visibility, promote its NetBond platform, and leverage automation and AI to expand beyond traditional large multinational corporations.

Consumer AI and the Replatforming of the Consumer Digital Economy

Greg Ireland, Kelly Brown — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study highlights developments in the consumer AI market. As we look at the ways in which consumer use of AI changes other online behaviors, we see a replatforming of the consumer digital economy in which consumers rely less on traditional search and websites and more on AI assistants. AI assistants are already the starting point for many consumer customer journeys. This represents monetization opportunities for AI platform providers and opportunities for these providers to reshape a growing number of online consumer experiences.

Worldwide Mobile Phone Forecast, 2026-2030: CY 1Q26

Ramon T. Llamas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation analyzes the worldwide mobile phone market, including shipments and average selling prices (ASPs). In addition, we provide regional breakdowns and a view of air interface technologies. Finally, this presentation includes a comparison against our previous forecast published in December 2025.

"The worldwide mobile phone market is bracing for a 12.6% contraction in 2026 due to memory shortages," pointed out Ramon T. Llamas, research director with IDC's Mobile Devices and AR/VR. "We saw the start of this toward the end of 2025 as memory vendors pivoted toward supplying datacenters and AI and did not expand current capacity to meet the demands of the mobile phone market. At the same time, the scarcity of memory will also lead to an increase in average selling prices, jumping 13.8% to reach $462. As a result, both volumes and ASPs will show slow recovery." —