14 DAY TRIAL // There has already been talk of NVIDIA's financial performance during its latest completed fiscal quarter, but now reports have emerged concerning the second quarter of 2011 and just how big a stake the company has on the notebook market.
NVIDIA did fairly well during its recent fiscal quarter and it looks like this development is suffering from no sort of lack of attention.
The profit rise rate is expected to grow even further, in no small part thanks to the Tegra mobile platform.
Nevertheless, the main business outlet remains that of desktop and mobile PC graphics, and area where, likewise, NVIDIA has reason to rejoice.
The recent report made by Digitimes may not deal with the same period as the other recent ones (it focuses on the second quarter of 2011, not Q2 of NVIDIA's fiscal year 2012), but the tidings are no less of a cause for optimism.
All in all, the Santa Clara, California-based company succeeded in boosting its graphics share on the notebook market by almost 9% (8.9% to be exact).
In other words, even though AMD's Fusion APUs put pressure on discrete solutions, as did Intel's chips with integrated graphics (especially on the low-end and, in the case of the former, the mainstream level), products from the GeForce line (especially 500M series) manage to shine.
The GeForce GTX 560M and GTX 580 GPUs were the ones that shined the brightest, courtesy of machines from such companies as ASUS, MSI, Clevo, etc.
Overall, for those that want some more numbers, the total market share of NVIDIA discrete GPUs reached 50.6% at the end of the second three-month period of this year.
Moving forward, NVIDIA recently promised that there is no need to worry about any possible issues with the upcoming 28nm GPUs.
While 40nm chips were plagued by yield issues, 28nm will not see the same fate because the company has taken the time to study it more closely.