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ASUS is pushing a full package of AI servers, software and services for companies that want to run their own AI. The offer was announced at NVIDIA's GTC show in Berlin in October.
What happened
ASUS, a computer hardware maker, is selling a complete AI package to businesses. At NVIDIA's GTC show in Berlin on October 21-22, it announced an offer called the Enterprise Agentic AI Solution. It has three parts: new and existing AI servers, software to manage AI work, and a services team that ties everything together. ASUS says companies now want to run AI in their own buildings instead of only in the cloud.
Key numbers and facts
- The worldwide server market grew 30 percent in one year, to $122.6bn in the first quarter of 2025, according to the analyst firm IDC.
- IDC expects inference (the step where a trained AI model answers questions) to be more than 70 percent of computing demand by next year.
- The offer has three layers: AI Server and Infrastructure, AI Software Stack, and AI HUB.
- The GTC show in Berlin took place on October 21-22.
Why companies build their own AI
Until now, most big AI computing ran in huge cloud data centers run by large providers. Now many companies want their own AI systems. Some reasons are control over their data, especially in fields like finance, healthcare, manufacturing and government, and predictable costs. The article also says AI is moving from simple chatbots to AI agents. These agents plan tasks, run code and use outside tools, and they depend heavily on CPUs (the main processing chips in a computer).
Why it matters
Companies need AI fast, but they also need help keeping AI systems running over time. ASUS argues that older AI servers were built mainly around GPUs (chips that handle many calculations at once). As agent work grows, the CPU becomes a bottleneck, which can leave expensive GPUs waiting. If ASUS can solve this, it may win business as AI moves into company data centers, factories and developer desks.
What to watch
- Whether companies choose ASUS's full package over buying parts from many different suppliers.
- How well the new servers handle CPU-heavy agent work in real use.
- How fast ASUS can deliver systems, since memory and CPU supply are tight.
- Whether this trend of enterprise-owned AI keeps growing, as IDC predicts.
Glossary
- ASUS
- A computer hardware company that makes servers and now sells complete AI systems and services to businesses.
- NVIDIA
- A company that makes GPU chips used to run AI. It hosted the GTC show where the offer was announced.
- IDC
- An analyst company that tracks computer and server markets and predicts trends.
- Agentic AI
- AI that does multi-step tasks on its own, such as planning, running code and using outside tools.