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Jon Peddie Research, the market research company of the computer graphics industry, has released its Quarterly Market Watch report on global GPU shipments used in personal computers for the fourth quarter of 2018. According to the report, overall GPU shipments decreased by 2.65% over the prior quarter and year Total GPU shipments per year decreased by 3.3%.
In more detail, AMD's shipments fell by 6.8%, Nvidia's by 7.6% and Intel's by 0.7% compared to the previous quarter.
AMD's market share compared to the last quarter decreased by 0.6%, that of Intel increased by 1.4% and that of Nvidia decreased by 0.82%. Even so, while GPU shipments declined overall, PC sales increased 1.61%.
Dr. Jon Peddie, president and founder of Jon Peddie Research, said:
"The demand for the complementary card chain (AIB) in early 2018 was not in line with what was happening on the market. As a result, the chain was overloaded with inventory. This had an impact on discrete GPU sales in the fourth quarter and will likely be evident in the first and second quarters. "
Here are the highlights of this latest report.
- Overall shipments of AMD units decreased by -6.81% quarter-on-quarter, Intel's total shipments decreased -0.67% from the previous quarter and -7.62% for Nvidia.
- The GPU (including embedded and discrete GPU) pegs for the quarter was 135%, down -5.92% from the previous quarter.
- Discrete GPUs were present in 27.78% of personal computers, down -3.83% from last quarter.
- The global PC market grew 1.61% qoq and was down 3.79% yoy.
- Addition of desktop graphics (AIB) cards that use discrete GPUs decreased by -10.75% over last quarter.
- In the fourth quarter, tablet shipments have not changed since the last quarter.
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