Intel's gains become especially clear with the data presented this way. The world's biggest chipmaker has been slowly eating away at the market shares of not just Nvidia and AMD, but also smaller GPU vendors like Via and Matrox. Of course, we should take care to point out that
Intel doesn't actually sell any discrete GPUs—those 37.2 million shipments are all integrated graphics chipsets.
Looking ahead,
JPR expects the PC market—and GPU shipments in particular—to see an upturn in the third and fourth quarters of this year. New product launches, back-to-school and holiday-season rushes, pent-up demand, worldwide stimulus programs, and the release of both Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 should all help boost up the GPU market, JPR says.
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