According to a fresh report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the graphics chip shipments in the Q4 2013 were actualy up by 1.6 percent compared to the last quarter and up by 2 percent when compared to the same quarter last year. While AMD's shipments dropped quite significantly, both Intel and Nvidia managed to get their market shares up by a significant percentage.

This is actually the second quarter in a row which shows gains in graphics chip shipments and while AMD's overall units shipments dropped by a quite significant 10.4 percent, Intel managed to increase it by 5.1 percent, compared to the last quarter, while Nvidia market share rose by 3.4 percent.

The expected trend where more PCs actually have embedded/integrated GPU rather than the discrete one is still going so 34 percent of PCs are running on discrete and 66 percent of PCs are using integrated graphics.

The rise in graphics chip shipments did not fix the drop in the overall PC market which managed gain 1.8 percent compared to the last quarter but still saw a rather significant 8.5 percent drop when compared to the same quarter last year.

Although it has seen a significant drop in graphics chip market share, AMD still managed to gain 15 percent increase in shipments of APUs as well as a 1.8 percent increase in discrete desktop shipments, its notebook APU and GPU market share has seen a massive drop of 26.7 and 6.7 percent drop. Of course, AMD scored deals with both Sony's and Microsoft's new consoles so it should not take a big hit.

The rise in graphics chip market share, which includes embedded GPUs, IGPs, APUs and standard GPUs is a good indicator of current status of the PC market so hopefully we will see it bounce back soon.



Source: JonPeddie.com.