Press Releases

The Workstation Market Still Looking to Break out of its Recent Doldrums

TIBURON, CA – June 6, 2012 -Those looking for the first quarter of 2012 to provide some undeniable proof that the workstation market was breaking out of its recent holding pattern were disappointed. Alex Herrera, Senior Analyst at Jon Peddie Research, reports that around 918.4 thousand workstations shipped worldwide in the quarter, as the market shrunk further from the peak … Read more

Graphics Add-in Board Shipments seasonally down just 2% from Last Quarter

TIBURON, CA-May 23, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics Add-in Board (AIB) shipments and sales’ market share for Q1’12. The JPR AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. They are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They may … Read more

Q1 Graphics Shipments Decline 0.8% Over Last Quarter & Slip 3.38% Over Last Year

TIBURON, CA-May 22, 2012 -Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q1’12. The news was not good. AMD was able to grow shipments over last quarter by 0.3%, in a down quarter. Intel slipped 1.3% and Nvidia declined 4.5% from the last quarter. … Read more

PC Gaming Hardware Market to Hit $23.6 Billion in 2012

Premium quality “Enthusiast” and “Performance” class equipment contributes $3.2 billion in growth from 2011 TIBURON, Calif., May 03, 2012 –Jon Peddie Research estimates there are 54 million Performance and Enthusiast class PC gamers worldwide, with new entrants and console converts bolstering this to 72 million by 2015 The recession is winding down and the Enthusiast and Performance class PC gamers … Read more

Embedded graphics: Imagination Technologies supplies more GPU IP than all others combined

Chances are your mobile device is running with PowerVR graphics TIBURON CA 23 March, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for 2011. Mobile devices include smartphones, tablets, cameras, vehicles, and game consoles. The market for smart mobile devices is soaring. Mobile devices are not necessarily … Read more

“Steady as She Goes” for the Workstation Market in Q4’11

TIBURON, CA-March 12, 2012 -The workstation market proceeded ahead in the fourth quarter of 2011, completing a long climb back from the 2009 depths of the global economic recession that had slashed its shipments by over 40 percent. But that fourth quarter advance was more a case of “steady as she goes” than “full speed ahead”, reports Jon Peddie Research … Read more

Qualcomm shipped the most mobile devices GPUs last year

Apple has highest Q4quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-27 February, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for 2011. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 of GPUs in mobile devices (tablets and smart phones) had a CAGR for the year … Read more

Graphics Add-in Board Shipments down 6.5% from Last Quarter

Seasonality coming back? TIBURON, CA-February 27, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics Add-in Board (AIB) shipments and sales’ market share for Q4’11. The JPR AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. They are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers,  and some other devices such as … Read more

Q4 graphics shipments decreased 10.4% over last quarter, and increased 8.9% over last year

AMD led the quarter with 7.8% quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-22 February, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q4’11. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, the new seasonality that has … Read more

Worldwide CAD Market Report 2012

TIBURON, CA-December 1 2011 Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced the availability of the Worldwide CAD Market Report 2012. The CAD market, one of the largest and most established software markets is dynamic and growing in new directions. The CAD Market was worth approximately $5 billion in 2009. It reached … Read more

Q3 graphics shipments up 16.7% over last quarter18.4% over last year

Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth TIBURON, CA-November 1 2011—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q3’11. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher … Read more