Report: GPU Market in a Major Slump, Will Continue through Second Quarter 2009
Report: GPU Market in a Major Slump, Will Continue through Second Quarter 2009
Posted 01/30/2009 at 11:34am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to statistics collected by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), GPU shipment numbers for Q4 2008 were just 72.35 million units. That represents a significant drop off from one year prior when GPU makers shipped 100.5 million units, and an even bigger drop from Q3 2008, which shipped 111.26 million GPUs.
All graphics vendors felt the pinch, but ATI appears to have been hit a little bit harder, giving up some market share to Nvidia. As of Q4 2008, Nvidia held a 31 percent share compared to ATI's 19 percent. Intel still bested them both with a leading 48 percent share of the market.
"The fourth quarter is usually a positive quarter for the computer industry," Dr. Jon Peddie said in a statement. "There has obviously been some inventory problems in the quarter as sales failed to live up to the optimistic expectations of the third quarter, 2008. Vendors were bracing for a slower than usual quarter due to economic factors, but performance this quarter was surprisingly low. Put simply, the market stalled in the fourth quarter."
Peddie noted a strong forecast for the second half of 2009, but cautioned that it would come after the worst Q1 and Q2 decline since 2000, DailyTech reports.
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Bravo_18
January 30, 2009 at 9:52pm
its a global financial crisis..these company should adjust their forecasting..the major problem is that they expected too high revenues of a financial state crisis..
its plane simple math, people to spend nowadays on what would be more important besides computer parts. That is to survive this crisis. Ati and Nvidia are still producing good quality GPu's as of today its just still the top class is way to expensive and most people go to mainstream vid cards..
nvidia still has to top the 8800 GTX followers, since the 9800gtx is just the same as 8800gtx with steriods..
decapitor
January 30, 2009 at 2:53pm
Well then they shouldn't have made the 8800gt so damn good that it can still run anything well at 1680x1050.
AndyYankee17
January 30, 2009 at 11:37am
should intel really be considred a gpu maker? I mean the people who use their GPUs are probably completly unaware of it
Paul_Lilly
January 30, 2009 at 12:37pm
Considering that Intel produces GPUs and owns the lion's share of the market, the answer would be yes.
xs0u1x
January 30, 2009 at 4:38pm
arent their gpu's integrated on the mobo, and doesnt support any major games because intel believes hardware t&l and the likes can be performed by the cpu?
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