The data center accelerator market is projected to reach USD 170.81 billion in 2025 and USD 372.68 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 16.9% between 2025 and 2030. Strong demand for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics fuels the market growth, prompting enterprises, hyperscale cloud operators, and research institutions to adopt GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs. 
Advancements in accelerator architectures, energy-efficient designs, and AI-optimized software frameworks enhance processing speed, workload efficiency, and scalability across heterogeneous computing environments. Rising investments in hyperscale and edge data centers and the increasing cloud adoption further support market expansion. However, high equipment costs, integration complexities with legacy systems, and rapid technology obsolescence may constrain adoption. Overcoming these challenges through modular solutions, standardization, and strategic partnerships will be key to sustaining long-term growth and strengthening the role of accelerators in modern data center infrastructure.
The growing digital transformation trend across industries such as banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail further propels demand, as organizations seek advanced infrastructure to support predictive analytics, automation, and customer-centric services. Moreover, the rising deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud environments within enterprises emphasizes the need for accelerators to ensure seamless scalability, low-latency performance, and robust security. With the convergence of AI-driven workloads and business applications, enterprise data centers emerge as a focal point for accelerator adoption, positioning this segment as a critical driver for the overall data center accelerator market.
Moreover, the transition to 5G and upcoming 6G technologies significantly amplifies network traffic, creating a strong need for advanced acceleration to ensure seamless connectivity and service quality. The segment also benefits from ongoing investments in digital transformation and the push toward software-defined infrastructure, which relies heavily on specialized hardware to optimize performance. As enterprises and service providers prioritize energy efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, the integration of accelerators within IT and telecom environments is set to intensify, positioning this vertical as a dominant force in shaping the global data center accelerator market.
Rising demand from e-commerce, telecommunications, and financial services accelerates the adoption of GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to enable low-latency, energy-efficient, and high-performance computing. Furthermore, advancements in accelerator technologies and declining costs of high-performance hardware enhance scalability and operational efficiency for enterprises across the region. The strong focus on innovation, combined with increasing enterprise reliance on data-intensive applications, positions it as a key growth driver in the global market, shaping the region’s role in the evolution of next-generation digital infrastructure.
The three tiers of the companies are based on their total revenues as of 2024: Tier 1: Greater than USD 1 billion, Tier 2: USD 500 million-1 billion, and Tier 3: USD 500 million.
The major players in the data center accelerator market with a significant global presence include NVIDIA Corporation (US), Intel Corporation (US), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (US), Alphabet, Inc. (US), and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US).
Advancements in accelerator architectures, energy-efficient designs, and AI-optimized software frameworks enhance processing speed, workload efficiency, and scalability across heterogeneous computing environments. Rising investments in hyperscale and edge data centers and the increasing cloud adoption further support market expansion. However, high equipment costs, integration complexities with legacy systems, and rapid technology obsolescence may constrain adoption. Overcoming these challenges through modular solutions, standardization, and strategic partnerships will be key to sustaining long-term growth and strengthening the role of accelerators in modern data center infrastructure.
By type, the enterprise data center segment is expected to register the highest CAGR between 2025 and 2030.
The enterprise data center segment is projected to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period, driven by the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data analytics across business-critical operations. Enterprise data centers require high-performance computing capabilities to handle massive data volumes, complex algorithms, and real-time decision-making, making accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs indispensable. These technologies significantly enhance computational speed, energy efficiency, and workload optimization, enabling enterprises to achieve higher productivity and lower operational costs.The growing digital transformation trend across industries such as banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail further propels demand, as organizations seek advanced infrastructure to support predictive analytics, automation, and customer-centric services. Moreover, the rising deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud environments within enterprises emphasizes the need for accelerators to ensure seamless scalability, low-latency performance, and robust security. With the convergence of AI-driven workloads and business applications, enterprise data centers emerge as a focal point for accelerator adoption, positioning this segment as a critical driver for the overall data center accelerator market.
Based on vertical, the IT & telecom segment is projected to account for the largest market share in 2030.
The IT & telecom segment is expected to hold the largest share of the data center accelerator market in 2030, driven by the exponential growth of data-intensive applications and the rising adoption of cloud computing and 5G networks. With the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers and edge infrastructure, IT and telecom providers increasingly deploy accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to handle massive computational workloads with greater efficiency and reduced latency. These accelerators enable faster data processing, enhanced storage optimization, and real-time analytics, which are critical to supporting high-bandwidth services, video streaming, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.Moreover, the transition to 5G and upcoming 6G technologies significantly amplifies network traffic, creating a strong need for advanced acceleration to ensure seamless connectivity and service quality. The segment also benefits from ongoing investments in digital transformation and the push toward software-defined infrastructure, which relies heavily on specialized hardware to optimize performance. As enterprises and service providers prioritize energy efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, the integration of accelerators within IT and telecom environments is set to intensify, positioning this vertical as a dominant force in shaping the global data center accelerator market.
Asia Pacific is projected to exhibit the highest CAGR from 2025 to 2030.
During the forecast period, Asia Pacific is expected to register the highest CAGR in the data center accelerator market during the forecast period, driven by rapid digital transformation, the increasing adoption of cloud computing, and the growing deployment of artificial intelligence and big data analytics. Key countries, such as China, India, Japan, and South Korea, are witnessing significant investments in hyperscale and edge data centers, fueled by supportive government initiatives promoting digital economies, 5G networks, and smart infrastructure.Rising demand from e-commerce, telecommunications, and financial services accelerates the adoption of GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to enable low-latency, energy-efficient, and high-performance computing. Furthermore, advancements in accelerator technologies and declining costs of high-performance hardware enhance scalability and operational efficiency for enterprises across the region. The strong focus on innovation, combined with increasing enterprise reliance on data-intensive applications, positions it as a key growth driver in the global market, shaping the region’s role in the evolution of next-generation digital infrastructure.
The break-up of the profile of primary participants in the data center accelerator market:
- By Company Type: Tier 1 - 35%, Tier 2 - 45%, Tier 3 - 20%
- By Designation: C-Level Executives - 40%, Directors - 30%, Others - 30%
- By Region: North America - 40%, Europe - 20%, Asia Pacific - 30%, RoW - 10%
The three tiers of the companies are based on their total revenues as of 2024: Tier 1: Greater than USD 1 billion, Tier 2: USD 500 million-1 billion, and Tier 3: USD 500 million.
The major players in the data center accelerator market with a significant global presence include NVIDIA Corporation (US), Intel Corporation (US), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (US), Alphabet, Inc. (US), and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US).
Research Coverage
The report segments the data center accelerator market and forecasts its size by function, processor type, vertical, type, and region. It also comprehensively reviews drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges influencing market growth. The report covers qualitative aspects in addition to quantitative aspects of the market.Reasons to buy the report:
The report will help the market leaders/new entrants with information on the closest approximate revenues for the overall data center accelerator market and related segments. This report will help stakeholders understand the competitive landscape and gain more insights to strengthen their position in the market and plan suitable go-to-market strategies. The report also helps stakeholders understand the pulse of the market and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges.The report provides insights into the following pointers:
- Analysis of key drivers (rise in generative AI workloads, scaling machine learning via cloud-based accelerators for enterprise data centers, hybrid edge acceleration driving real-time low-latency inference workloads), restraints (high total cost of ownership limiting scalable deployment of data center accelerators, supply chain and packaging constraints hindering accelerator scalability, power and thermal constraints limiting scalable data center accelerator deployment), opportunities (use of FPGA and custom silicon accelerators to unlock high-performance, energy-efficient AI deployment, accelerator-as-a-service and subscription models enabling scalable AI deployment, hardware-software co-design and interconnect standardization accelerating AI workload efficiency), and challenges (power and cooling inefficiencies constraining scalable deployment of AI data center accelerators, addressing architectural fragmentation and integration challenges in AI accelerators, geopolitical and trade risks disrupting global AI accelerator supply chains)
- Product Development/Innovation: Detailed insights on upcoming technologies, research & development activities, and strategies such as new product launches/developments, collaborations, partnerships, and acquisitions in the data center accelerator market
- Market Development: Comprehensive information about lucrative markets-the report analyses the data center accelerator market across varied regions
- Market Diversification: Exhaustive information about new products, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments in the data center accelerator market
- Competitive Assessment: In-depth assessment of market shares, growth strategies, and product offerings of leading players, including NVIDIA Corporation (US), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (US), Intel Corporation (US), Alphabet, Inc. (US), Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US), Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (US), Marvell (US), Achronix Semiconductor Corporation (US), Broadcom (US), and Graphcore, Ltd. (UK)
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Research Methodology
4 Premium Insights
5 Market Overview
6 Deployment Modes of Data Center Accelerators
7 Applications of Data Center Accelerators
8 Data Center Accelerator Market, by Processor Type
9 Data Center Accelerator Market, by Function
10 Data Center Accelerator Market, by Vertical
11 Data Center Accelerator Market, by Data Center Type
12 Data Center Accelerator Market, by Region
13 Competitive Landscape
14 Company Profiles
15 Appendix
List of Tables
List of Figures
Companies Mentioned
- Nvidia Corporation
- Intel Corporation
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Alphabet Inc.
- Qualcomm Technology, Inc.
- Marvell
- Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
- Micron Technology, Inc.
- IBM Corporation
- Dell Inc.
- Graphcore
- Hisilicon
- Fujitsu
- Sambanova Systems, Inc.
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Microchip Technology Inc.
- Semptian
- Tenstorrent
- Blaize
- Ampere Computing LLC
- Imagination Technologies
- Groq, Inc.
- Kalray
- Rebellions Inc.
- T-Head
- Moore Threads
- Shanghai Biren Technology Co. Ltd.
- Broadcom
Table Information
| Report Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| No. of Pages | 260 |
| Published | October 2025 |
| Forecast Period | 2025 - 2030 |
| Estimated Market Value ( USD | $ 170.81 Billion |
| Forecasted Market Value ( USD | $ 372.68 Billion |
| Compound Annual Growth Rate | 16.9% |
| Regions Covered | Global |
| No. of Companies Mentioned | 29 |
