AMD has made great progress in the graphics card market over the last year, but now that the numbers for Q3 has been released by Jon Peddie Research it turns out that it lost a little to both NVIDIA and Intel. Where Intel still dominates with its integrated graphics circuits.
Sales of graphics circuits increased by 10% year-to-year but dropped 1% from Q2 2010, which is probably a result of dropping notebook sales.
Intel is as usual the giant and went from 53.4% in Q2 to 55.6% in Q3. Even NVIDIA managed to go from 20.7% to 21.2%, which is most likely a direct result of the new mid-range monster GeForce GTX 460 and integrated solutions.
AMD attributed its slip in market share to weakened demand and OEMs letting their GPU inventory run down to avoid being stuck with leftover processors. Due to real and perceived shortages in supply, some customers shifted their purchases to rival Nvidia.
AMD was the loser in Q3 where it dropped from 25% to 22.3% of the total market. It is still on top of NVIDIA, but just barely. What the numbers will look liks in January when we round off 2010 with a whole new series from AMD and NVIDIA to follow with the GeForce GTX 580.
Source: JPR
