The report finds that shipment volume of the Taiwanese server industry grew over 6% year-on-year in 2018, reaching over 11.8 million units. The industry is anticipated to still enjoy growth in 2019 albeit at a slower rate as the expansion in datacenters is expected to slow down.

Due mainly to the US-China trade war thatset off in mid-2018, the advanced inventory replenishment for serversbegan at the end of 2018. This is expected to lead to a relatively high level of inventories in the first half of 2019.