Wednesday, October 30th 2013
AMD to Reach 40 Percent of Global GPU Market Share in 6 Months
AMD's share of the global GPU market is rising after the company launched its new Radeon R9 and Radeon R7 lines of discrete GPUs, and is expected to reach 40 percent over the next six months, according to sources associated with graphics card manufacturers based in Taiwan. In its recently announced Q3-2013 quarterly results, AMD announced net profits of $48 million, despite drops in revenues from notebook-related shipments, but revenues from customized products (custom-design graphics cards, etc,) and stable desktop (OEM) shipments helped the company turn a profit. Market analysts expect shipments of graphics cards to help sustain the company's growth in Q4, although some of them are conservative with their estimates.
Source:
DigiTimes
16 Comments on AMD to Reach 40 Percent of Global GPU Market Share in 6 Months
AMD would essentially have to double its market share in 6 months. There has to be some trickery going on here.
Edit: for those who didn't realize, the chart is a clickable link to the original article.
I for one would be glad for AMD to get more market share, I never really knew why NVidia had more market share in the first place.
What is the current market share? Integrated graphics included? Who is this unnamed source? Weak post...
The question I have is do the number of consoles even matter for AMD's profit? I thought Sony and Microsoft just paid a large one time fee to use AMD's core design and AMD makes no royalties per console sold.
Plus the pr states "shipments" not "sales." I think its stock price spin and nothing more. I'll wait to see Amd's next quarterly statements to see actual sales figures.
Figures from Mercury Research.
Do you maybe have a link to the source with more info?