Nvidia saw shipments and market share in the GPU space grow in the third quarter, but sales slowed for rivals Intel and AMD, Jon Peddie Research says.
Nvidia is weathering the negative impacts of the struggling PC market on graphics chips better than rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, according to market research firm John Peddie Research.
In a report released Nov. 26, Jon Peddie said that while both Intel and AMD saw their unit shipments and market share decline in the third quarter, Nvidia saw a boost in both metrics, despite the overall weakness in a global PC market that has spread over several quarters.
Nvidia in the third quarter shipped 22.25 million PC GPUs—both discrete graphics chips and graphics technology on heterogeneous CPU/GPUs—a 19.6 percent increase from the second quarter, and its market share rose from 14.8 percent to 18.5 percent. At the same time, Intel—the world's largest GPU vendor—shipped 71.75 million units, an 8 percent drop from the second quarter, while AMD's shipments fell to 10.7 percent, to 25.43 million. Intel's market share fell from 62.2 percent in the second quarter to 59.8 percent in the third; AMD's went from 22.7 percent to 21.2 percent.
Overall, GPU shipments in the third quarter fell 4.3 percent from the second quarter, and 20 million fewer units were shipped when compared with the third quarter of 2011.
"The news was terrific for Nvidia and disappointing for everyone [including] the other major players," Jon Peddie analysts said in a statement.
In general, most news surrounding the global PC market has been bad for the past few quarters. Sales continue to shrink as consumers spend more of their money on new mobile devices, particularly tablets and smartphones, and the global economy continues to struggle. Most of the top-tier companies with close ties to the PC market—from chip makers like Intel and AMD to OEMs like Hewlett-Packard and Dell—are seeing their financial numbers taking a hit due to the contracting PC market, even as they try to expand into higher growth areas.
Analysts with IDC and Gartner said in October that third-quarter PC shipments fell by between 8 and 9 percent from the same period in 2011, and Jon Peddie analysts said that the problems in the PC market are showing up in the worldwide GPU numbers.
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