According to Jon Peddie Research, Intel controlled over 60 percent of the global GPU market in Q2 of 2011. The market was described as “surprisingly healthy”, with demand growing despite a predicted decrease. AMD and Nvidia both failed to capitalize on this growth, and Intel managed to secure an additional 6% of the total GPU market during this time.
AMD was hit hardest, dropping from 24.7 percent in Q1 to 21.2 percent market share in Q2. Despite this, AMD still holds a handy lead over Nvidia, who fell from 19.9 percent down to 17.5 percent.
Intel, on the other hand, went into Q2 with a market share of 54.7 percent and came out with 60.7 percent. Just over a year ago Intel was sitting with 52.9 percent of the global GPU market share.
Of course Intel’s recent surge in market share is due to the popularity of Sandybridge motherboards which feature onboard discreet GPUs, so it’s not as if Intel is stealing high-end market share from AMD and Nvidia. What is more interesting, is that Nvidia and AMD lost market share to lower-end discreet GPUS.
The bottom line is that Intel’s discreet GPU solution is gaining significant traction, while the heavyweight high-end sector seems to be shrinking in proportion to the entire graphics card market.
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