AMD staged a counter attack in the graphics chip market last quarter and stole market share from Intel and Nvidia.
According to Jon Peddie Research, Intel continues to dominate the field with a 59.1 percent share of the market.
But Intel has lost a percentage point to AMD and is down to 60.4 percent. That is still better than it was last year, when it was 52.5 percent.
The report is being seen as proof of the power of integrated graphics and the fact Nvidia is not doing so well is because it ditched the idea to focus on discrete graphics. Nvidia dropped less than half a percentage point from 16.1 percent in Q3 to 15.7 percent in Q4.
AMD was the only major GPU player to increase its graphics chip market share. It ended the quarter with a 24.8 percent share, up from 23 percent in Q3.
But things on the graphics market are not that wonderful. JPR points out that Q4 graphics shipments dropped 10.4 percent over last quarter. But, for the entire year, GPU shipments are up 8.9 percent.
Discrete GPU shipments declined 12 percent from last quarter and were down nearly 3.5 percent compared to last year. Which is making Nvidia's cunning plan to only make discrete graphics look a little odd.
JPR doesn't take into account technology such as mobile phones, X86 Servers, ARM based tablets, "Smartbooks", or ARM based Servers which use Nvidia's Tegra chips.
Edward, they didn't have a choice. They tried to get Intel to open up their bus but Intel absolutely refused, and in doing so has now created another CPU competitor (Nvidia).
Nvidia couldn't make chipsets for the 'Core' series and be competitive without the ability to talk directly to those chips. Intel paid them a billion dollars to go away with all that 'market lockout' kind of talk. Time will tell whether Nvidia's move to ARM will pay off for them.
As long as there are PC gamers, there will be Discrete Graphics demand. PC gaming is growing fast, and by 2014 PC gaming will surpass Console gaming by far. The only difference is people are not upgrading their discrete graphics as often as they would like due to higher than normal prices.
In regards CPU/GPU, AMD has what people want. And once Trinity is released, AMD should very well claw back massive amounts of Market Share IMO from both Intel and NVIDIA because AMD "WILL" have the better chip for consumer consumption.
Trinity as it stands blows away LIano by far with much lower thermals, 50% faster graphics and 25% faster CPU on in one efficient Fusion package.
As long as there are PC gamers, there will be Discrete Graphics demand. PC gaming is growing fast, and by 2014 PC gaming will surpass Console gaming by far. The only difference is people are not upgrading their discrete graphics as often as they would like due to higher than normal prices.
In regards CPU/GPU, AMD has what people want. And once Trinity is released, AMD should very well claw back massive amounts of Market Share IMO from both Intel and NVIDIA because AMD "WILL" have the better chip for consumer consumption.
Trinity as it stands blows away LIano by far with much lower thermals, 50% faster graphics and 25% faster CPU on in one efficient Fusion package.