14 DAY TRIAL // AMD & Ati market share seems to be going down. And when these two to go down, Nvidia always climbs a bit. I'm not sure whether this market gain is somehow related to the success of 8800 GPUs (maybe it is?) but I'm pretty convinced that the merge between Ati and AMD has a lot to do with it. For example, Jon Peddie Research estimates that about 76 million video cards and IGPs shipped in Q3 2006, translated into a 5.2% increase from Q2 and an 11.2% increase over Q3 2005.
INTEL holds its first position with 40% market share; ATI comes in second in Q3 2006, but with a 5% loss. Nvidia holds on to the 3rd spot in Q3 2006 and closes the gap that separates them from ATI with a 2% increase in shipments and market share. JPR also estimates that approximately 31.7 million of the 53 million GPUs shipped for desktop PCs were integrated graphics chip (IGC) parts.
Overall, Intel held at 35% of the desktop IGP, ATI dropped to 22%, and Nvidia grew a lot to 25% market share. In the discrete desktop segment, Nvidia also grew, to 57% share and ATI stopped at 43% share during the same period. Also, a total of 22.7 million mobile graphics devices were also supplied with nearly 77% of them being integrated solutions.
Intel leads the mobile graphics market with a 51% share while ATI's IGPs have dropped to a 24% share, and Nvidia jumped up a little but it still has only 8% market share. However, Nvidia seems to be doing better in the discrete mobile solutions, mainly because Geforce Go GPUs are optimized to consume less power than their Ati counterparts. Here Nvidia's shipments have steadily increased, while Ati went down even after the introduction of the mobile X1900 series.