14 DAY TRIAL // We've only just finished writing about how good the first quarter turned out to be for AMD's APU and graphics sales.
Now we can toss a passing glance over the whole graphics market, thanks to Jon Peddie Research.
Long story short, the number of GPUs shipped, whether they were part of CPUs/Chipsets or not, went down, and this is the good thing.
It is common for sales to slow in the first months of the year, but they went down by less than expected here: 0.8 percent instead of the ten-year average 3.1%, from 126.3 million to 123 million.
For those who want to know what each vendor accomplished, AMD's shipments, overall, grew by 0.3%, even though desktop APUs jumped 84%, but Intel and NVIDIA fell 1.3% and 4.5%, respectively.