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PC client CPU shipments decreased in Q1’24 by -9.4% sequentially from last quarter and increased 33% year to year

A down quarter after four quarters of growth.

Robert Dow

Jon Peddie Research reports the growth of the global PC client-based CPU units market reached 62 million units in Q1’24, a decrease of  -9.4% quarter to quarter and a 33% growth from Q1’23.

Total CPU shipments
Figure 1. Quarterly shipments of desktop and notebook CPUs.

Meanwhile, iGPU shipments decreased to 56 million units from last quarter. Year over year, however, iGPUs increased by 30%. Over the next five years, the penetration of iGPUs in the PC segment will grow to reach 98%.

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Figure 2. Quarterly shipments of iGPUs by vendor.

Server CPU shipments decreased -13% from last quarter and were down -17% from last year.

Jon Peddie, president of JPR, commented, “Q1’s decrease in client CPU shipments from four quarters of positive news threw a few off, especially investors. It’s actually good news in a sense if it is an indication that the market has stabilized and has returned to its traditional cyclic behavior. If that’s the case, and we think it is, Q2 will also be down.”

The above information and more can be found in the new Q1’24 edition of Market Watch, which includes server and client CPU shipment data back to Q1’21 and GPU-compute (GPGPU) shipment data back to Q1’21 for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. The report includes an expansive pivot data array that includes those devices.

JPR also publishes a series of reports on the graphics add-in board market and PC gaming hardware market, the latter of which covers the total market, including systems and accessories, and looks at 31 countries.

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JPR’s Market Watch is available in electronic and hard-copy editions, and a single issue sells for $3,000. This report includes an Excel workbook with the data used to create the charts, the charts themselves, and supplemental information. The annual subscription price for JPR’s Market Watch is $6,000 and includes four quarterly issues. Full subscribers to JPR services receive TechWatch (the company’s exclusive access to daily news).

Click here to view the executive summary, table of contents, and more about this significant report or to download it now. For more information, call (415) 435-9368 or visit the Jon Peddie Research website at www.jonpeddie.com.

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About Jon Peddie Research

Jon Peddie Research has been active in the graphics and multimedia fields for more than 30 years. JPR 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 in various fields, including graphics development, multimedia for professional applications and consumer electronics, high-end computing, and Internet-access product development. JPR’s Market Watch is a quarterly report focused on PC graphics controllers’ market activity for notebook and desktop computing.

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