Overall GPU Market dropped 0.5% from Q1’2008

Posted by Jon Peddie on July 30th 2008 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA-July 30, 2008-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the second calendar quarter of 2008. Traditionally, the second quarter is seasonally down in the computer industry because of summer vacations, and getting ready for back to school sales. Although this year was no different, there was the smallest drop since 2001.   7 year Average 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 % Growth from Q1 to Q2 -3.34 -10.75 -2.55 -5.42 -5.18 1.63 -4.22 3.13 -0.49 Table 1: Growth rates from…