With TBR’s Devices market and competitive intelligence research, gain insights into interrelated ecosystems, including those of device vendors, platform providers, suppliers and technology partners across consumer and commercial spaces.
A free trial of TBR’s Insights Center platform gives you access to our entire Devices research portfolio and the ability to customize and curate reports detailing our analysis based on your company’s specific needs.
Trends we’re watching in 2026:
- Supply chain impact on pricing and profitability (relevant to both infra & devices)
- The rebrand of AI PC
- Windows PC refresh cycle and market share wars
- Digital workplace solutions
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Market and competitor benchmarks provide a comparison of vendor performance in a market, including analysis on vendor strategies, financial performance, go-to-market and resource management. The research graphically portrays comparisons of vendors by myriad metrics, calling out leaders, laggards and business models. Defensible, data-informed views of market opportunity and operational best practices are highlighted in each publication. TBR also provides benchmark data in Excel pivot tables.
Current Market & Competitor Benchmarks:
- Devices Benchmark

TBR’s vendor reports, snapshots and profiles provide deep-dive analysis of a single vendor across corporate strategies, tactics, SWOT analysis, financials, go-to-market strategies and resource strategies. Vendor performance is put in the context of market opportunity and competitive environment and our assessment shows where a vendor will success and its future market position.
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Forward-deployed Engineers: The Last Mile of the AI Value Chain
/by Alex Demeule, Senior AnalystIn TBR’s opinion, the decision to pursue a more embedded services posture with FDEs suggests two things: Agentic AI technology has reached a point where vendors are willing to raise the stakes and work directly with customers to enable hands-on adoption support, and AI value remains very hard to deliver. By putting boots on the ground, vendors are betting that the right FDE paired with the customer’s technical talent can identify the opportunities for agentic automation that overcome these adoption hurdles, expand usage, and convert AI experimentation into repeatable commercial value.
Telecom Infrastructure Services Market Expected to Become More Dependent on Hyperscalers and Fiber Technology Deployments
/by Michael Soper, Senior AnalystTBR research shows hyperscaler investment across multiple network domains will intensify through the forecast period, both to support cloud and AI as well as for general connectivity, driving TIS spend growth for this customer segment