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
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
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.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
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
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
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.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
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.
Insights 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.
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
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
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 Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
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 onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
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.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Market Perspective examines the top 5 trends to expect in the U.S. mobile market for 2021 and beyond. 2020 was a year like no other, bringing unexpected changes and shifts in the U.S. mobile market. The coming year and beyond will ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 4Q20.
"Reasonably healthy levels of demand from cloud hyperscale ...
This IDC Market Note summarizes key messages from KPN's annual Industry Analyst Day for its Business division on October 8 and corporate strategy update on November 24. It also provides IDC's perspective on both events.
This IDC Market Perspective examines the influence of artificial intelligence on the achievement of sustainable and social goals as well as its related ethical and fairness challenges. The document highlights the use cases of AI in Europe ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial production printer news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in December 2020.
This IDC Market Note includes imaging, printing, and document solutions news for November and December 2020.
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced machine learning ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight from 3D printer manufacturers in how they see 3D printing helping manufacturers optimize their supply chains and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the amount of operational data generated by commercial aircraft and analyzes the amount of data stored by key data recorders.
"Today's connectivity and storage technologies are very capable of ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges associated with managing secure print in a hybrid work environment. This document discusses how organizations should approach print security for ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the emerging enterprise network as a service (NaaS) market, including the evolution of this market and trends driving the market from both the enterprise and network vendor perspectives, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides insight on enterprise application spending in 2021. Enterprise application vendors are sitting on a gold mine for 2021 if they have paid attention and moved to a modern, modular, and transformational ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode examines the results from IDC's groundbreaking survey on virtual meetings and conferences in the COVID-19 era and what the results mean for technology vendors and sponsors. Watch as IDC President, ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode identifies the five stages of enterprise recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith Whalen; and Chief Analyst ...
This video is the first in IDC's "Candid Conversations on Moving from Crisis to Recovery" series, where IDC's executives and senior research leaders explore the ways technology supports business recovery and resiliency, especially in response ...
The IDC Market Note covers the launch of Konica Minolta's AccurioPress C4080 family of color toner presses, targeting the midproduction class segment.
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode reviews the transformational technologies and policies supporting safer return-to-work initiatives. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith Whalen; and ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores the challenges small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are facing in this economic downturn and what these businesses need to survive. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode investigates the critical roles cloud platforms are playing in enterprises' crisis response and recovery efforts. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; Chief Research Officer, Meredith ...
This IDC Market Perspective video series episode explores China's governmental and corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and China's progress along the five stages of enterprise recovery. Watch as IDC President, Crawford Del Prete; ...
This IDC Market Note covers the key lessons learned and future priorities that will drive CIOs agenda in 2021 and beyond. It summarizes key takeaways from the CIO Advisory Roundtable held in November 2020 and moderated by IDC, capturing ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the emerging approaches to accelerating datacenter compute around key workloads such as AI, security, media encoding, and cryptocurrency mining as well as long-established elements such as data compression ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how a holistic approach to use of a digital infrastructure ecosystem accelerates digitally driven enterprises' use of innovative technologies. In the future of digital infrastructure, digitally driven ...
This IDC Market Note details NetApp's additional enhancements to the company's Keystone flexible consumption offer announced during the NetApp Insights 2020 conference.
"On October 28, NetApp announced additional enhancements to its ...
This IDC Market Note provides an update on large format printer shipment activity in 3Q20 for the North America market.
"The large format market appears to be recovering, but we're mindful of the current increases in shutdowns and ...
This IDC Market Note provides highlights from Dropbox's first virtual Industry Analyst day held on November 18, 2020. In addition to highlighting new capabilities in its core content sharing and collaboration solution, the company unveiled ...
This IDC Market Note provides our perspective concerning how Wipro enables its customers to address the complex operations and monetization challenges that are becoming a key part of all 5G/MEC deployments.
"Operational readiness for ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from IDC analysts who virtually attended Hyland's CommunityLIVE event held October 7–9, 2020. During the event, Hyland shared with IDC how it is executing on its transition to the cloud, launching ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial and production printer news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended Capgemini's Global Analyst and Advisor Summit 2020 held October 14 and 15. During the event, Capgemini shared with IDC how it is strategically ...
This IDC Market Note presents the key takeaways from several IDC analysts who virtually attended the Citrix Workspace Summit on October 23, 2020. During the event, Citrix shared insight with IDC into the Citrix Workspace platform functionality ...
This IDC Market Note comprises financial news announced in late October and November 2020 among print vendors.
This document aims to deliver an analysis of the changes in the market related to acceleration in Digital Transformation and its impact on digitized infrastructure and related security consumption. The increase in cloud services consumption ...
This IDC Market Perspective delves into the accelerating market demand for consumer digital life protection offerings. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the operating routines for countless consumer households. Virtual activities became ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in November 2020.
This IDC Market Note covers the Xerox global virtual event "Dreams In. Prints Out." that was held November 18, 2021. During the event, Xerox customers from across the world got to see product upgrades, new inks, press introduction, and software ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the role enterprise applications play in the shift from business continuity and crises mode to business resiliency, growth and, eventually, the future digital enterprise. In IDC's latest Worldwide ...
This IDC Market Note discusses announcements and observations from Cisco Partner Summit 2020, held virtually for the first time this year on October 28 and 29. Cisco CX is in its third year of a multiyear journey, where, in 2019, the company ...
This IDC Market Note highlights announcements from ASG Technologies EVOLVE20 virtual customer conference held in October 2020 with a focus on product capabilities to automate and digitize critical business activities via cloud-based digital ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the new AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors, launched by AMD on the October 8, 2020, outlining the architecture and analyzing its key strengths and use cases. Moreover, it discusses other factors ...
This IDC Market Note provides an update on office and consumer printer shipment activity in 3Q20 for the United States.
"The business closures because of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect sales, but healthcare, government, ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the RafMore smart label solution, developed in partnership between UPM Raflactac, Magic Add, and Xeikon. We review the benefits of the integrated label solution and the market drivers in ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the role that 5G plays in accelerating and intensifying the transformation of mobile operators' networks. The advent of 5G brings tremendous promise, with the potential for advanced use cases and the ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the sustainability of digital textile printing compared with traditional textile manufacturing and printing methods.
"Sustainability is progressively becoming a vital issue among textile printing manufacturers. ...
This IDC Market Perspective considers the broad list of technologies unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2020.
"Microsoft continues to flex its considerable muscle mass as it responds to the dramatic changes impacting the world in 2020," ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred in late-September and throughout October 2020 about imaging, printing, and document solutions vendors.
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of Kodak Alaris' recent announcements on expanding the company's document capture portfolio. These announcements include updates to its INfuse platform, expanded remote service and device management ...
This IDC Market Note examines industrial and production printer news that occurred in October 2020.
This IDC Market Note examines 3D printing news that occurred in October 2020.
This IDC Market Note examines the circular economy service introduced by Dutch company Closing the Loop, which turned its electronic waste collection in emerging markets into a certified solution that makes selling new IT devices and reselling ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes key takeaways from Notion Now 3, a virtual gathering of B2B, SaaS, and cloud providers and investors coming together to discuss key trends in this changing world.
This IDC Market Perspective provides IDC's assessment of announcements made at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020.
NVIDIA's GTC 2020 showcases its aspiration to be a leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure. ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the social distancing monitoring solution of workplace IoT provider UbiqiSense, and how organizations can use this technology to bring employees back into offices without sacrificing their health and safety ...
This IDC Market Note discusses the acquisition of Pericom Singapore's by ABBYY, which will be renamed as ABBYY Singapore. It also discusses the nature of the acquisition, industry context, and the future of both ABBYY and the Pericom Group.
...This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the utilities industry in 3Q20, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financing deals; major traditional infrastructure projects; major renewables ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of utilities' asset operations in 3Q20, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financial deals, major traditional infrastructure projects; major ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides a preliminary unit shipment range for worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) units by HDD drive class and estimated supplier market share for 3Q20.
"Effects from COVID-19 continue to impact the enterprise ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the performance of the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa personal computing devices market during the first half of 2020, which was a unique period characterized by the outbreak of COVID-19. The document ...
Empathetic buildings of the future will be smart workspaces wherein there will no longer be switching between platforms, apps, and content types, producing a space enabling users to use all these types in one place and bringing together ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the managed print and content services market pre-, mid-, and post-pandemic, highlighting the rapidly changing market dynamics that provide opportunities and pose challenges for managed print and content ...
This IDC Market Note provides insight into the datacenter infrastructure supply chain and production environment, showing where constraints currently exist in the broader ecosystem as of the end of September 2020.
This IDC Market Note provides an update on production print shipment activity in 2Q20 for the U.S. region. We discuss market tends by technology, notable installations, and model-level commentary. We offer some guidance based on IDC's assessment ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores the impact of COVID-19 on the traditional office environment, leading to an increase in work-from-home scenarios and, in turn, an acceleration in automation.
"The shift to work from home due to ...
This IDC Market Note looks at how Danish software provider EveryonePrint has already integrated its recent acquisition — One Q — and how it is building capabilities to compete more keenly and comprehensively in the cloud and on-premises ...
This IDC Market Note focuses on the prospects for the hardcopy (printer and multifunction) market during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. With many businesses and organizations being closed for a significant period in most countries in ...
This IDC Market Perspective delves deeper into the makeup and characterization of the consumer DataSphere and StorageSphere and analyzes how consumers manage the data they actively create, where they store the data they create, and how they ...
This IDC Market Perspective aims to update our security prognostications, assess the short-term impacts, and provide additional insights on the future. The dramatic force of change, driven by COVID-19, and the resulting mass migration of ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred in September 2020 about imaging, printing, and document solutions vendors.
This IDC Market Note focuses on recent launches by Epson that comprise entries into four new LFP segments.
This IDC Market Perspective discusses professional services for containers. As enterprises look to adopt container solutions, they will turn to professional services delivered by either the manufacturer or a third-party services firm to ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the potential for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) from traditional cable operators to disrupt the competitive dynamic for wireless service among consumer and business subscribers. Mobile virtual ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing market news that occurred in September 2020.
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of Pure Storage's announcement, made on September 29, 2020, about its integration with vSphere Virtual Volumes with VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Site Recovery Manager, Cloud Native Storage ...
This IDC Market Note includes industrial production printer news that occurred in September 2020.
This IDC Market Note looks at how Kornit Digital is investing in its business to take advantage of global market trends around on-demand, customized, personalized digital textile printing and pandemic-accelerated demand for online shopping.
...This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the market impact of NVIDIA and SoftBank's agreement that SoftBank will sell Arm Ltd. to NVIDIA for $40 billion.
"NVIDIA and SoftBank say the deal will take about 18 months to close," said Shane ...
Leveraging a host of Microsoft technologies, solutions/intellectual properties (IPs), and services, Infosys' Microsoft Business Applications (MBAS) practice is at the forefront of helping customers build smart and resilient enterprises amid ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer purchases of PCDs in East and West Africa. It describes how consumers responded to the pandemic in the first half of 2020. The perspective looks specifically ...
This IDC Vendor Profile outlines Schneider Electric's Access to Energy program that provides access to energy for people and communities that currently do not have reliable energy sources.
This IDC Market Note highlights some of the steps telecommunications companies have taken to connect people at risk of digital isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. It examines major initiatives implemented in Europe in Q2 2020.
...This IDC Perspective is the sixth in a series of short reports looking at 5G in vertical applications, focusing on the potential applications of 5G in the media & entertainment sector.
"Media & entertainment has emerged as ...
This IDC Market Perspective looks at the impact of video telemetry data created by video surveillance systems, machine (computer) vision, and drones on the Global DataSphere and the installed base of storage capacity in the Global StorageSphere ...
This IDC Market Note provides an overview of VMware's September 15 announcement on VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 and the first updates to vSphere 7 and vSAN 7.
"IT departments are increasingly being required to support modern applications ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the transformation in the digital textile printing market. The market for digitally printed textiles is too large to ignore but has been slow to develop. Through the first half of 2020, in large part ...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an insight into the managed UC&C services market dynamics. It defines the different types of UC&C deployments, the types of managed UC&C services, and the broad range of managed UC&C services ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines NVIDIA's proposed acquisition of Arm, which, if approved, will potentially change the datacenter, edge, and cloud server markets in profound ways. NVIDIA IP inserted into Arm processors and licensed to ...
This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed overview of Green Datacenter AG, a leading Swiss datacenter and IT infrastructure service provider. Particular relevance will be given toward the theme of sustainability and datacenter efficiency, ...
This IDC Market Note provides a summary of Dell Technologies' announcement on September 14, 2020, around its integration of vSphere with Tanzu on its VxRail HCI platform. Dell is offering three deployment models for Tanzu, depending on the ...
This IDC Market Note analyzes the mobilization of start-ups and scale-ups across Europe to deliver products and services to resolve some of the challenges created by COVID-19. It provides insights into some start-ups that were able to work ...
This IDC Market Perspective presents excerpts from public financial disclosures by leading hardcopy vendors and details the impact of COVID-19 on performance and forecasts.
The COVID-19 headwinds continued into the second quarter, ...
This IDC Vendor Profile examines the journey that Dell Technologies is undertaking as it takes a significantly stronger organizational point of view on social impact issues. As CEO Michael Dell expressed, "From a global pandemic to justified ...
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes IDC's COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey (conducted August 5–17, 2020) by C-level and middle management responses. The C-suite's relatively positive views on 2020 and 2021 economic growth, IT ...
This IDC Market Perspective summarizes highlights from the Orange Business Services Analyst Days that took place on July 8 and 9, 2020. It gives IDC's views on connectivity, unified communications, smart mobility, IT and system integration, ...
This IDC Market Perspective discusses how automation and insight drive evolution in optimization and managed support services.
"Advanced analytics, deep IT knowledge, and business intelligence coupled with consultative engagements ...
This IDC Market Note includes news that occurred in August 2020 about imaging, printing, and document solutions vendors.
This IDC Market Note includes industrial production printer news that occurred in August 2020.
This IDC Market Note examines AT&T's quarterly results discussed in the company's 2Q20 earnings announcement on July 23, 2020. In this document, IDC analyzes AT&T's operating metrics and overall strategy in the context of the U.S. ...
This IDC Market Note includes 3D printing news that occurred in August 2020.
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the market impact of Intel Architecture Day on the overall computing industry and for Intel as the company attempts to balance top-line revenue growth by investing in technologies aimed at continuing ...