05:22
Abdul Raauf
With NVIDIA's 9800 GX2 and 9800 GTX video cards available, the landscape in the high end video cards market has become very interesting, but I guess we'll have to wait a few months to see the statistics for the current period, and how did NVIDIA manage to keep or expand its market share with the help of these new monsters. At the same time, AMD/ATI holds the "best bang for the buck" crown, and considering the pricing of NVIDIA's top of the line cards, I don't think they are going to lose that crown anytime soon. Anyway, now we have to look back for a while, and see how AMD/ATI managed to get back on track in the last quarter...
Considering the holiday season, and the fact that ATI's position in the midrange and low-end markets is pretty strong, the market share gain can be easily explained, but the results in the next two quarters will be very interesting to check, as soon as they become available.
For now, it should be noted that Intel's market share went up from 38% to over 41%, NVIDIA fell from 33.9% to 31.8%, VIA simply crashed to 2.3%, down from 6.63%, but ATI/AMD managed to climb from 19.1% to 22.8%!
Since everyone thinks 2007 was an exceptional year, the growth may not keep up, but leaving the market analysis aside, I am sure we'll have an exceptional year when it comes to new products, and I am thinking of AMD's low-cost platforms, as well as the desktop processors market.
Considering the holiday season, and the fact that ATI's position in the midrange and low-end markets is pretty strong, the market share gain can be easily explained, but the results in the next two quarters will be very interesting to check, as soon as they become available.
For now, it should be noted that Intel's market share went up from 38% to over 41%, NVIDIA fell from 33.9% to 31.8%, VIA simply crashed to 2.3%, down from 6.63%, but ATI/AMD managed to climb from 19.1% to 22.8%!
Since everyone thinks 2007 was an exceptional year, the growth may not keep up, but leaving the market analysis aside, I am sure we'll have an exceptional year when it comes to new products, and I am thinking of AMD's low-cost platforms, as well as the desktop processors market.
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