Jon Peddie Research: Nvidia on a Roll, Grabs More Desktop Market Share in Q4

ATI gains Integrated Chipsets for Notebooks against Intel

TIBURON, CA—February 1, 2006—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the forth calendar quarter of 2005 and the total year.

With a winning streak fueled by good products and ATI's manufacturing problems, Nvidia soared ahead in Q4 to grab 52% of the discrete desktop market, and VIA leapt ahead 50% in the integrated space to pick up 24% of the market while Intel slid from 61% to 50% in the same period.

With ATI's gains in integrated their overall share of the total desktop market (integrated and discrete) stayed even at 24%, while Nvidia gained one point growing to 23% and Intel slipped five points to 32%.

Figure 1. Desktop PC Graphics Market Share 2005.

In the mobile space, integrated parts continued their growth in market share ending up at 74% in Q4. ATI took one point away from Nvidia in the overall mobile space while Intel and VIA held steady. In the mobile integrated segment, ATI grew at Intel's expense to 30% against Intel's decline from 77% to 4%, while all others held steady.

Figure 2. Mobile PC Graphics Market share.

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