The analytical company jon peddie research (JPR), which is specialized in market exploration for graphic and multimedia products, published a report, which contain the estimations of GPU deliveries volume and market shares according to the second quarter 2008 .
It is traditional, for the second quarter to see a overall earning and sales decrease connected with summer . Although this year did not become exception, the decrease proved to be insignificant . It is equal to only (-)0,49%.
Although a year ago was observed even a increase of up to 3,13%, in six of eight last years the value was negative and average value during this period composes (-) 3,34%. According to JPR experts calculations , the total deliveries volume for this block is equal to 94,4 mln. units .
From them 44,67 mln was dispatched by intel company , which allowed it to preserve superiority on the market with the portion in size of 47,3%. The second place is occupied by NVIDIA, with up to 31,4% of market and finally AMD with 18,1%. The enumerated companies divide practically the entire market between themselves. It is simple to calculate, that for remaining producers remains about 3%.
To be precise, Matrox has 0,1%, SiS - 2,0%, VIA/S3 - 1,1%. Let us recall, that the discussion deals about all GPU - intended for both desktop and mobile systems. If we examine only the market for desktop GPU, Intel here has 41,5%, NVIDIA - 36%, AMD - 18.3%. The volume of desktop GPU market in this block was reduced by 5% and in the quantitative expression it composed 59,2 mln. units.
The laptop computers market , on contrary, grew by 8,1%, to 35,3 mln units. Production for laptop computers now composes 37,4% of all GPU, produced in the world. On this market intel company possesses the largest portion 57,1%. NVIDIA Portion for Q2 block was reduced and composed 23,6%, while AMD portion grew to 17,9%. Moreover, in JPR opinion , AMD has all chances to increase their portion in the third quarter on the market as a whole. Related Products :
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