
Bank of America projected the data center CPU market will grow from around $61.4 billion this year to $210.6 billion in 2030, as AI agents like Meta's Muse lift server CPU demand.
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Meta introduced Muse just last month, and by Oct. 5 it already had roughly 2 million daily active users. That rapid adoption is one sign of the agentic AI trend that Bank of America expects to drive server CPU demand.
The projected shift from an 8:1 GPU-to-CPU ratio for AI model training and 4:1 for inference to 1:1 for AI agents suggests a much larger role for CPUs as agents become more common. Nvidia and AMD have placed their own server CPU market projections at $220 billion, close to Bank of America's $210.6 billion figure for 2030.
Arm is presented as the biggest potential winner, with Bank of America projecting that custom Arm-based chips could capture nearly 38% of the server CPU market in 2030 and Arm's new mass-market chip a 9.4% share. AMD is seen climbing from 27.7% this year to 30.7% in 2030, while Intel, above 40% in 2025, is projected to fall to around 22% by 2030.
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