Overall GPU market was up an astounding 20% – desktop displaced mobile

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 29th 2007 | Permalink
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TIBURON, 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.   2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Q3 growth from Q2 -0.48% 18.62% 16.07% 16.20% 11.59% 12.52% 20.17% Total shipments for the quarter were 97.85 million units, up 20% in over last quarter. Compared…