Graphics market: Intel/AMD advances NVIDIA continues to decline

The famous market research agency Jon Peddie Research (JPR) announced today the first quarter of 2011 global graphics market status report, and gives the latest market share of major manufacturers.

According to data from Dataquest, IDC, iSuppli, and other organizations, global PC shipments in the first quarter were approximately 83 million units, down 5.4% from the fourth quarter of 2010, but JPR statistics found that the global graphics shipments increased significantly over the same period. 10.3%, reaching 125 million, and the average performance over the past decade is a decrease of 4%. Although this performance is delighted, JPR is worried that it will also cause inventory pressure in the second quarter.

JPR's graphics statistics include various types of graphics products such as GPU independent graphics processors, IGP chipset integrated graphics, EPG processor integrated graphics, HPU processor heterogeneous graphics cores (APU/SNB), and so on. This quarter is the fifth quarter of Intel EPG, the second quarter of HPU, and the second quarter of AMD APU.

With the diversification of graphics cards, the number of graphics cores included in each PC is slowly increasing. In 2001, it was only 1.15, and it has now reached almost 1.45.

Acquired by the Clarkdale/Arrandale EPG integrated processor, Atom netbook processor, and Sandy Bridge processor, Intel further consolidated the status of the graphics card boss. In the first quarter of 2011, the market share reached 54.4%, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the previous quarter. Increased by 4.8 percentage points.

With the outstanding performance of recent generations of discrete graphics cards and the emergence of the Fusion APU, AMD’s market share has continued to grow. In the first quarter of last year, it was still 21.5%. The world’s third, fourth quarter and first quarter of this year increased to 24.2% respectively. , 24.8%, surpassed NVIDIA and ranked second. In fact, AMD's shipment growth is also the largest, both double-digit and double-digit year-on-year.

NVIDIA's squeeze from the two major rivals is not good, and shipments continue to decline. Market share is also falling all the way: 28.0% in the first quarter of last year and 22.5% by the end of the year, now only 20.0%.

Other niche vendors are not surprised, Matrox, VIA/S3 is still half dead, SiS has almost completely died, the market share has been negligible.