Most notable hardware trends in 2019-2021.
Popularity of distributions
Drop of interest for Ubuntu by 12%. People at home probably have more time to investigate other distros:
Display server
Wayland finally started to gain popularity:
SSD vs HDD
HDDs still have the bigger market share than SATA SSDs. But NVMe SSDs will probably beat the popularity of both SATA SSDs and HDDs in 2023:
SSD vendor
Crucial and WDC grew by 2%. Samsung, SanDisk and Kingston lost 1-3% of market share:
Monitor resolution
WXGA gradually becomes history by 3-5% yearly displaced mainly by FHD, 4K, HD+ and QHD:
Wireless
Intel quickly displaces all other WiFi chips manufacturers by 3-7% yearly:
Ethernet
Intel is gradually catching up with Realtek by 2-3% yearly:
Bluetooth
Intel quickly displaces all other manufacturers by 4-9% yearly:
Filesystem
Ext4 quickly losing ground in favor of btrfs, xfs and zfs:
Boot mode
EFI will displace BIOS legacy boots in 2022:
Processor architecture
i686 became history this year =(:
Manufacture year
23% of computers are brand new (manufactured in 2021):
Usage of IPv6
We have started to measure IPv6 in 2020. Usage of IPv6 grows by 5% yearly:
Memory
Grow of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron market share. Drop of Kingston:
Presence of CD-ROM
CD-ROMs gradually become history by 4-10% yearly. They will disappear finally in 2027-2028:
Presence of Ethernet
Number of laptops w/o Ethernet has doubled:
Unsupported devices
Unfortunately, more unsupported devices in Linux by 1% yearly:
See more trends in the GitHub repository.
Popularity of distributions
Drop of interest for Ubuntu by 12%. People at home probably have more time to investigate other distros:
Display server
Wayland finally started to gain popularity:
SSD vs HDD
HDDs still have the bigger market share than SATA SSDs. But NVMe SSDs will probably beat the popularity of both SATA SSDs and HDDs in 2023:
SSD vendor
Crucial and WDC grew by 2%. Samsung, SanDisk and Kingston lost 1-3% of market share:
Monitor resolution
WXGA gradually becomes history by 3-5% yearly displaced mainly by FHD, 4K, HD+ and QHD:
Wireless
Intel quickly displaces all other WiFi chips manufacturers by 3-7% yearly:
Ethernet
Intel is gradually catching up with Realtek by 2-3% yearly:
Bluetooth
Intel quickly displaces all other manufacturers by 4-9% yearly:
Filesystem
Ext4 quickly losing ground in favor of btrfs, xfs and zfs:
Boot mode
EFI will displace BIOS legacy boots in 2022:
Processor architecture
i686 became history this year =(:
Manufacture year
23% of computers are brand new (manufactured in 2021):
Usage of IPv6
We have started to measure IPv6 in 2020. Usage of IPv6 grows by 5% yearly:
Memory
Grow of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron market share. Drop of Kingston:
Presence of CD-ROM
CD-ROMs gradually become history by 4-10% yearly. They will disappear finally in 2027-2028:
Presence of Ethernet
Number of laptops w/o Ethernet has doubled:
Unsupported devices
Unfortunately, more unsupported devices in Linux by 1% yearly:
See more trends in the GitHub repository.
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