Jon Peddie Research analysts reported that in the fourth quarter last year, AMD managed to take nearly a quarter of graphics solutions market. This is due to the successful sell of hybrid processors - for similar reasons, Intel was for years considered as the largest manufacturer of graphics solutions.
Jon Peddie Research report, that the leader in the segment of discrete graphics solutions is NVIDIA, its share in the fourth quarter accounted 63.4% of the market. In the third quarter this figure was 59.7%, so we can speak of a strengthening of NVIDIA positions . However, in the fourth quarter 2010, NVIDIA controlled 60.5% of the market. Note that the increase in market share for NVIDIA graphics cards accompanied by a drop in revenue and profit in the fourth quarter last year.
For AMD's : 39% in the fourth quarter 2010, 39.9% in the third quarter 2011, 36.3% in the fourth quarter 2011. Other manufacturers of discrete graphics solutions (such as Matrox) are content with 0.3% of the market. Graphics cards supply for the quarter declined from 17.2 million units to 16.1 million units (-6.5%). Revenues from the sale of cards fall by 0.4% compared to 2010, to $ 14.9 billion This is dictated by the dynamics of lower demand and lower average selling prices.