Analyst company Jon Peddie Research summed up the performance of companies in the market for video cards for PC in the second quarter of 2017. The statistics obtained are pretty much out of all that has been observed in this market for the last two decades. Traditionally, in the first quarter, the demand for adapters either decreased slightly or was flat. In the second quarter, shipments plummeted as sellers and system builders were selling stocks on the eve of the summer months. In
the third quarter warehouses again began to be filled, symbolizing the growth in demand in the autumn months and in the pre-holiday season.
The growth in the supply of discrete video cards, which was observed in the second quarter of this year, according to Jon Peddie Research was due to the crypto currency Ethereum. A similar leap was already in 2013 after the enthusiasm of the Bitcoin and Litcoin miners. However, the situation with Ethereum forced the development of the video card market in a different scenario. Professional Bitcoin miners soon after the popularity of this crypto currency switched from video cards to customized
BIS (ASIC). Then the secondary market was thrown out a lot of video cards, which for a couple of quarters changed the usual course of things in the adapter market.
With Ethereum, this will not happen, analysts are sure. The algorithms for generating this crypto currency are specially created so that the miners use video cards, rather than special processors. While there is interest in Bitcoin, there will be interest in Ethereum and other crypto-currencies and, consequently, sales of video cards will grow. But sooner or later it will end, because Bitcoin has no economic justification. In any case, for now.
Returning to video cards (graphics processors), observers noted that in the second quarter, GPU shipments consistently grew by 7.2%. AMD GPU shipments increased 8%, NVIDIA GPU shipments grew 10%, and Intel increased shipments by 6%. In annual terms, GPU shipments in the second quarter grew by 6.4%: 5% for desktops and 7% for laptops. In the second quarter, shipments of discrete GPUs for the first time in many years showed better and more positive dynamics than the built-in GPUs. The
first is responsible for the miners, and the second is to blame the PC market decline.
The PC market, according to analysts, in quarterly comparison grew by 0.12%, while in the annual comparison it decreased by 3.98%. Deliveries of the same discrete graphics cards from the first to the second quarter of 2017 increased by 30.88%. So, if on the average in the first quarter on each sold PC accounted for 0.09 of the video card, then in the second quarter there were 1.46 for each PC sold. Besides maynig, experts note, gaming solutions have become a bright spot for the market of
discrete graphics cards. But the market has made, we repeat, the demand for solutions for the production of crypto-currency. Related Products :
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