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101 Tech Trends That Will And Won't Shape 2025
As industries worldwide grapple with challenges like global conflicts, inflationary pressures, and shifting technological investments, understanding what’s next has never been more critical. ABI Research’s whitepaper, “101 Tech Trends That Will and Won’t Shape 2025,” offers an invaluable guide to what the future holds.
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U.S.-Borne Economic Uncertainty Will Test OEMs and Hamper AI-Augmented Robot Development
April 15, 2025
Tariffs and economic uncertainty will punish innovative robotics startups as potential customers and financiers consider safer investments; industrial robot Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) will feel further pain as China and now the United States turn hostile toward them.
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Supply Chain Software Should Benefit from the Tariff Roller Coaster; Material Handling Solutions Might Not Fare as Well
April 15, 2025
For software providers, volatility is more often than not great for business. While the same can’t be said for hardware providers (devices, automation, etc.) that are facing potentially significant cost pressures and shaky consumer confidence, underlying industry fundamentals are hard to ignore.
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Tariffs Impact XR on More Than Price: Uncertainty, Confusion, and Supply Chain Disruption Are Unavoidable
April 15, 2025
Extended Reality’s (XR) exposure to complex global supply chains, paired with high device cost to begin with and challenges to scale, make the current tariff and global economic situation especially impactful for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) devices, and those that look to adopt...
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AI Investor Confidence Wanes in Indonesia as More Unicorn Startups Face Liquidation
April 15, 2025
Indonesian unicorn eFishery’s near-liquidation is another example of fading confidence in startup investors, highlighting a worrying trend of declining investments in technology across Indonesia. How can startups reinvigorate and capture future investment funding as declining confidence shakes the...
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Even with Semiconductor Exemptions, Tariffs Are Creating Cost Pressures That Will Ripple Through the AI Supply Chain, Impacting Every Stakeholder
April 15, 2025
Although semiconductors are exempt (for now), Trump’s imposition of a global 10% baseline tariff on U.S. imports and a quickly escalating trade war with China is poised to disrupt the entire Artificial Intelligence (AI) supply chain—cascading from AI infrastructure vendors (Original Equipment...
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Tariffs and Tech: New Challenges for Apple’s Manufacturing Operations in Vietnam
April 15, 2025
The recent imposition of United States tariffs on Vietnamese exports has significant implications for Vietnam’s growing role in the global technology supply chain—particularly for Apple, which has increasingly relied on the country as a key manufacturing hub. This ABI Insight provides an overview of...
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Building Under Pressure: How Tariffs Are Shaping the Future of Data Center Growth
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration’s renewed tariffs regime is expected to impact the data center market by increasing operational costs, disrupting hardware supply chains, and complicating site selection processes, subsequently leading to a new wave of governments and enterprises rethinking their digital...
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The U.S. New Tariff Regime: What Are the Potential Repercussions for the Hardware Security Module Market?
April 15, 2025
The new U.S. tariffs announced on goods will impact the Hardware Security Module (HSM) market and will have repercussions on the HSM services market as well. Depending on the outcome of trade negotiations and retaliatory response, HSM Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) should prepare plans to...
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Could the Philippines Emerge as a Rising Data Center Hub in Southeast Asia?
April 15, 2025
In March 2025, Beeinfotech PH officially launched its US$150 million HIVE Hybrid Data Center facility in Manila to support colocation, cloud computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services demand in the Philippines and Southeast Asia (SEA). This ABI Insight provides an overview of the...
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Sonos’ Failed App Launch Highlights Need for Open Systems to Drive Collaborative Innovation in the Consumer Electronics Market
April 15, 2025
Sonos’ S2 app, launched in May 2024, has backfired with customers complaining about severe bug issues and missing features, rendering the app virtually unusable. The failed app launch highlights the challenges associated with operating closed, proprietary systems and points to open collaboration as...
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Inwi and Maroc Telecom Deal Embodies the Larger Trend of Telco Alliances Accelerating 5G Adoption Across Africa
April 15, 2025
Morocco’s push to become a leading 5G hub in Africa is gaining momentum through the partnership between Maroc Telecom and Inwi. This collaboration is part of a larger trend across the continent, with telco operators increasingly joining forces to tackle the high costs of infrastructure and expand...
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Tariffs Present U.S. Manufacturers Opportunities to Reshore—Solution Providers Will Need to Address This Directly
April 11, 2025
Incoming tariffs can spark reshoring efforts among a lot of U.S.-based manufacturers. Supply chain optimization solution providers can use this as a way to directly address their wants and make it a part of their market messaging.
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AI as the On-Ramp: How Oracle CloudWorld Tour London Showcased Intelligence as the Catalyst for Cloud Adoption
April 11, 2025
This ABI Insight discusses the key announcements from Oracle CloudWorld Tour London 2025, with a focus on how Oracle is positioning Artificial Intelligence (AI)—particularly through the launch of AI Agent Studio and expanded Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in Fusion Applications—as a...
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U.S. Government Tariffs: Technology Will Not Be Enough to Save U.S. Manufacturing from Increasing Costs
April 10, 2025
The current U.S. administration looks to impose sweeping tariffs on most countries, with manufacturing hubs being some of the hardest hit. The likely result will be an increase in manufacturing costs, driving inflationary pressure in the U.S. economy, caused by increased input costs from supplier...
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SWIFT Confirms ISO 20222 Migration Firmly on Track – What Instant Payment Innovators Need to Know
April 10, 2025
The continued transition to an ISO 20022-only instant payment landscape is showing the wider benefits of ISO 20022 compared to MT 101. But alongside the positives, new challenges are being uncovered.
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