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Still in war with allies
Nvidia Still Graphics-Chip King
Intel widened its lead in the overall graphics market for the first quarter, while ATI and Nvidia continued their dogfight for second place, according to research released by analyst firm Jon Peddie Research on Friday.
While Intel held onto a commanding 39.1 percent market share in the overall graphics market, ATI Technologies also increased its lead slightly over Nvidia.
According to JPR, ATI's market share during the first quarter was 28.7 percent, up from 26.5 percent during thr fourth quarter, while Nvidia also slightly increased its share from 18.7 percent to 19 percent.
Overall, the total graphics market slighty declined in the first quarter, indicative of a decline in PCs sold. About 74.9 million PC graphics devices shipped from major suppliers during the first quarter, JPR said, a 5.7 drop decline from the prior quarter and a 24.5 percent increase over the same period the previous year. While the desktop graphics segment grew 22.3 percent year over year, discrete desktop shipments fell by 7.2 percent, as integrated chipsets enjoyed a 33.7 percent year-over-year increase.
Intel has traditionally enjoyed a commanding lead in graphics shipments since the company began shipping PC core logic chipsets that integrated graphics in the late 1990s. However, ATI and Nvidia have also followed suit, and Intel's rivals have gained ground.
Both ATI and Nvidia have typically focused upon each other, however, rather than trying to aggressively challenge Intel's price advantage. JPR said that ATI's market share was predicated upon aggressive integrated-graphics sales; in discrete desktop shipments, however, Nvidia's share increased from 51.5 percent to 53.0 percent on a sequential basis, while ATI's share declined from 46.3 percent to 45.1 percent.
"ATI's desktop and notebook IGC shipments are growing steadily and providing a challenge to Intel in these segments," said Lisa Epstein, a senior analyst at Jon Peddie Research, in a statement. "But Nvidia is in turn challenging ATI for more lucrative discrete graphics share. Nvidia leads ATI in the discrete desktop segment and grew share in the discrete mobile segment by nearly five points in the first quarter."
JPR estimated that approximately 19.2 million mobile graphics devices shipped in the first quarter, 14.1 million or 73.5 percent of which were integrated chipsets for notebooks. Again, ATI dominated the total mobile market against Nvidia; Intel recorded a 53.3 percent share, ATI recorded a 36.4 percent share, while Nvidia's share totaled just 6.6 percent. The difference is that ATI's discrete mobile graphics share was equally commanding: 74.6 percent, although ATI's share dropped by about 5 percent, while Nvidia's share increased 4.7 percent to 25.0 percent.
Overall, Via Technologies was the fourth-place supplier, with a market share that slipped from 12 percent to 9.0 percent sequentially. Silico Systems recorded a 3.7 percent share, down one percent from the fourth quarter. Matrox, once a dominant graphics supplier, slipped a tenth of a percentage point to 0.1 percent of the total graphics market.
Intel widened its lead in the overall graphics market for the first quarter, while ATI and Nvidia continued their dogfight for second place, according to research released by analyst firm Jon Peddie Research on Friday.
While Intel held onto a commanding 39.1 percent market share in the overall graphics market, ATI Technologies also increased its lead slightly over Nvidia.
According to JPR, ATI's market share during the first quarter was 28.7 percent, up from 26.5 percent during thr fourth quarter, while Nvidia also slightly increased its share from 18.7 percent to 19 percent.
Overall, the total graphics market slighty declined in the first quarter, indicative of a decline in PCs sold. About 74.9 million PC graphics devices shipped from major suppliers during the first quarter, JPR said, a 5.7 drop decline from the prior quarter and a 24.5 percent increase over the same period the previous year. While the desktop graphics segment grew 22.3 percent year over year, discrete desktop shipments fell by 7.2 percent, as integrated chipsets enjoyed a 33.7 percent year-over-year increase.
Intel has traditionally enjoyed a commanding lead in graphics shipments since the company began shipping PC core logic chipsets that integrated graphics in the late 1990s. However, ATI and Nvidia have also followed suit, and Intel's rivals have gained ground.
Both ATI and Nvidia have typically focused upon each other, however, rather than trying to aggressively challenge Intel's price advantage. JPR said that ATI's market share was predicated upon aggressive integrated-graphics sales; in discrete desktop shipments, however, Nvidia's share increased from 51.5 percent to 53.0 percent on a sequential basis, while ATI's share declined from 46.3 percent to 45.1 percent.
"ATI's desktop and notebook IGC shipments are growing steadily and providing a challenge to Intel in these segments," said Lisa Epstein, a senior analyst at Jon Peddie Research, in a statement. "But Nvidia is in turn challenging ATI for more lucrative discrete graphics share. Nvidia leads ATI in the discrete desktop segment and grew share in the discrete mobile segment by nearly five points in the first quarter."
JPR estimated that approximately 19.2 million mobile graphics devices shipped in the first quarter, 14.1 million or 73.5 percent of which were integrated chipsets for notebooks. Again, ATI dominated the total mobile market against Nvidia; Intel recorded a 53.3 percent share, ATI recorded a 36.4 percent share, while Nvidia's share totaled just 6.6 percent. The difference is that ATI's discrete mobile graphics share was equally commanding: 74.6 percent, although ATI's share dropped by about 5 percent, while Nvidia's share increased 4.7 percent to 25.0 percent.
Overall, Via Technologies was the fourth-place supplier, with a market share that slipped from 12 percent to 9.0 percent sequentially. Silico Systems recorded a 3.7 percent share, down one percent from the fourth quarter. Matrox, once a dominant graphics supplier, slipped a tenth of a percentage point to 0.1 percent of the total graphics market.
