What’s Hot

Each year the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community assembles a list of the top 10 trending technologies that the community believes will have the biggest impact on the IT industry and provide the biggest opportunities for the channel—for the current year as well as up to several years out.

The CompTIA Emerging Technology Community has published the Emerging Technology Top 10 List for three years prior to 2020. While CompTIA usually produces the list in March, this year’s list was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While some of the technologies have appeared on the list for multiple years, their ranking changes over time with some dropping off the list—usually as they go mainstream—and new technologies are added.

Here’s a look at this year’s list, counting down to the No. 1 emerging technology that offers the most potential opportunities for the channel.