Enterprise IP Telephony Puts In a Strong Q4 2004 in Europe While the U.S. Market Takes a Dip -- "According to Synergy Research Group's latest reports, Q4 2004 Enterprise VoIP U.S. Market Shares and Q4 2004 Enterprise VoIP EMEA Market Shares, the EMEA Enterprise IP Telephony market increased 28.1% sequentially and 88.8% year over year while its U.S. counterpart dipped 3.5% -- the first decrease ever measured for U.S. Enterprise IP Telephony. As an interesting counterpoint, the U.S. market saw 8 vendors post negative sequential growth compared to all vendors in EMEA experiencing positive growth and in many instances that growth being strong double digit. Alcatel, Avaya, and 3Com posted the strongest EMEA growth of 51, 42, and 33 percent."
The prevailing narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of relentless scale. Bigger models, bigger clusters, bigger budgets. The assumption, largely unchallenged until recently, was that raw parameter count translated directly into competitive advantage. New research from Omdia suggests it's time to retire that assumption. According to the latest market study by Omdia, parameter growth in frontier AI models has slowed to around 5 percent annually since 2021, a stark contrast to the more than hundredfold expansion seen between 2019 and 2021. Enterprise AI Market Development For executives who have been making infrastructure and investment decisions based on the assumption that AI would keep demanding ever-larger, ever-more-expensive hardware, this finding deserves serious attention. The race to the top of the model size leaderboard has, at least for now, plateaued. Crucially, Omdia's analysts are not reading this as an AI winter. Alexander Harrowell, senior pri...