Servers are facing the same fate as PCs and mobile devices, with a growing number of them made in Asian countries like China and Taiwan, a Gartner analyst says.

Much like PCs and mobile devices, it’s cheaper for companies to buy servers made in Asia than those made in the U.S., and buyers can get servers customized to meet their specific requirements, said Jeffrey Hewitt, an analyst at Gartner. Companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon, which build mega data centers, design servers in-house and have them manufactured in China or Taiwan.

Most of these servers are customized for hyperscale environments, in which companies deploy public and private clouds and deal with heavy Web traffic.

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