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Press Release for Immediate Release
EDITOR'S NOTE: Excerpts from Jon Peddie’s First Look are available on request. Overall GPU market was up an astounding 20% – desktop displaced mobileTIBURON, CA—October 29, 2007—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the third calendar quarter of 2007. Traditionally, the third quarter has good growth for the computer industry as retailers and OEMs prepare for the holiday season; this year had the biggest jump quarter-to-quarter for the last six years.
Total shipments for the quarter were 97.85 million units, up 20% in over last quarter. Compared to the same quarter last year shipments were up 18.2%. On the desktop, Nvidia held its first place position claiming 37.8% against Intel’s 33.5%, while AMD had a modest loss to 17.5%. In the mobile market Intel held its dominant position but slipped slightly to 50.9%, with AMD taking back the number two position at 23.4% and Nvidia coming in at 22.8%. Mobile chips continued their growth in units with 25.8 million units (up less than one percent over the last quarter), to claim 26.4% of the market, down from 31.5% last quarter. The desktop saw market share growth from 68.5% last quarter to 73.6% this quarter, or 72 million units.
"The third quarter of 2007 was the second quarter in a row to surprise us. There was growth in the second quarter, which is normally a slow period, and the third quarter, which is usually good, was a record this time,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research in Tiburon California. "We attribute the market's performance to increased demand by consumers for multimedia-rich systems, and, to a certain extent, to demands of Vista. Peddie notes that Microsoft shipped over 60 million copies of Vista so far, and that Intel’s and AMD’s aggressive pricing for their CPU platforms has stimulated demand for OEMs building PCs for the back-to-school season. Further, says Peddie, there is strong overall demand. There is little shift in market share between GPU vendors quarter to quarter which suggests there is no channel stuffing or double ordering. However, Nvidia’s G80 has exceeded expectations and is on allocation.Pricing and Availability The Q3’07 edition of Jon Peddie’s Market Watch are be available now in both electronic and hard copy editions. The annual subscription price for Jon Peddie’s Market Watch is $3,000 and includes four quarterly issues. Full subscribers to JPR services receive Tech Watch (the company’s bi-weekly report) and a copy of Market Watch as part of their subscription. For information about purchasing Market Watch, please call 415/435-9368 or visit the Jon Peddie Research website at www.jonpeddie.com. About Jon Peddie Research Dr. Jon Peddie has been active in the graphics and multimedia fields for more than 30 years. Jon Peddie Research is a technically oriented multimedia and graphics research and consulting firm. Based in Tiburon, California, JPR provides consulting, research, and other specialized services to technology companies, including graphics development, multimedia for professional applications and consumer electronics, high-end computing, and Internet-access product development. Jon Peddie’s Market Watch and First Look are quarterly reports focused on the market activity of PC graphics controllers for mobile and desktop computing. ###
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