Reasons to be cheerful
Graphics industry market researcher Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced its estimated global graphics shipments for Q2, and they make good reading.
The whole industry experienced quarter-on-quarter growth of 31.29 in Q2, a figure made all the more remarkable by the fact that there's usually a small decline in the second quarter. Total shipments amounted to 98.3 million units.
The channel embarked on a period of inventory reduction at the end of 2008 in anticipation of a protracted global recession. The apparent re-stocking by the channel in Q2 implies a significantly more optimistic outlook for the second half of this year.
JPR is predicting an upturn in the PC market in Q3 and Q4. Apart from general seasonality, it's citing new operating systems, new, aggressively priced GPUs and pent-up demand as reasons to be cheerful.
AMD and Intel experienced the most significant growth and took market share from NVIDIA and the smaller players.
Total Graphics Chip Market for Q2'09
|
Vendor |
This quarter |
Market share |
Last quarter |
Market share |
Growth Qtr-Qtr |
A year ago |
|
AMD |
18.13 |
18.4% |
12.81 |
17.1% |
41.5% |
17.11 |
|
Intel |
50.30 |
51.2% |
37.20 |
49.7% |
35.2% |
44.67 |
|
Nvidia |
28.74 |
29.2% |
23.26 |
31.1% |
23.6% |
29.63 |
|
Matrox |
0.06 |
0.1% |
0.07 |
0.1% |
-6.2% |
0.10 |
|
SiS |
0.40 |
0.4% |
0.70 |
0.9% |
-42.9% |
1.90 |
|
VIA/S3 |
0.67 |
0.7% |
0.84 |
1.1% |
-19.5% |
1.00 |
|
Total |
98.30 |
100.0% |
74.87 |
100.0% |
31.3% |
94.42 |
