The workstation market continues to experience healthy growth, hitting new high in Q4’10

Posted by Alex Herrera on March 9th 2011 | Permalink
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Alex Herrera

The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the workstation market take a noteworthy step forward  in its journey back from recessionary lows, setting a new high water mark for quarterly unit volume. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the fourth quarter, Jon Peddie Research senior analyst Alex Herrera reports the industry shipped 903.7 thousand workstations, representing a solid-though-moderate 6.4% sequential gain. Continued tempered growth should help reduce the potential for another dip in the workstation market, a dip the related market for professional graphics couldn't avoid in the previous quarter. Workstation-class GPUs had bounced back far more strongly…