The popularity of chipsets NVIDIA for AMD processors is pretty wide, and this is confirmed by numerical value : To NVIDIA belongs the high portion of this segment. Meanwhile AMD company considered ATI purchase as the possibility to obtain the active membership, which allow to release chipset under its proper name. Relationship chipsets and processors beneficially influences the image of platform, improves compatibility and enlarges the economic possibilities on OEM market.
For sure , it is interesting to learn, how changed the portions of different producers on the chipsets market for AMD platform from the moment of the association of this company with ATI. The data are assembled in the form of table:
|
Vendor
|
4Q06
|
3Q06
|
4Q06 vs. 3Q06
|
4Q05
|
| |
Units (mill)
|
Share (%)
|
Units (mill)
|
Share (%)
|
% Change in
Units
|
Units (mill)
|
Share (%)
|
|
NVIDIA
|
10.95 |
53.1% |
12.05 |
62.2% |
-9.1% |
6.60 |
34.0% |
|
ATI
(AMD)
|
6.18 |
30.0% |
4.45 |
23.0% |
38.9% |
3.40 |
17.5% |
|
VIA Techno
logies
|
2.82 |
13.7% |
2.10 |
10.9% |
33.8% |
7.01 |
36.1% |
|
Broad
com
|
0.55 |
2.7% |
0.59 |
3.0% |
-6.8% |
0.30 |
1.5% |
| SiS |
0.12 |
0.6
%
|
0.18 |
0.9
%
|
-36.0% |
1.73 |
8.9
%
|
| Total |
20.61 |
100.0
%
|
19.38 |
100.0
%
|
6.4% |
19.42 |
100.0
%
|
First of all, it is possible to estimate dynamics for the previous two blocks (2006). For example, portion NVIDIA was reduced from 62,2% to 53,1%, and the volumes of deliveries for chipsets NVIDIA with AMD platform were reduced by 9,1%. Against this background VIA and AMD (ATI) appear to be successful: the first increased the volumes of deliveries to 34,3%, and the second - to 38,9%. In this case the portion of VIA was increased from 10,8% to 13,7%.
Company AMD actually demonstrated the tendency to get significant market share for chipsets with its own processors: in the past block its portion grew from 23% to 30%. In other words, almost each three chipset, sold as motherboard for AMD processor , One of them is released by AMD company . Let us note that this picture does not represent the structure of market according to chipsets classes : mobile and desktop, integrated and discrete.
If we compare instantaneous values with the value from the fourth quarter of 2005, then from the desktop chipsets producers progress was demonstrated only by NVIDIA and AMD, VIA and SiS noticeably yielded to competitors.