Friday, February 1st 2008
Report: AMD to Grab Over 50% of the Discrete Notebook GPU Market in 2Q08
The discrete graphics card market for high-end notebooks is expected to see a big turn around with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell ready to adopt AMD's latest discrete graphics solution for their notebooks. This will increase AMD's market share to over 50% in the second quarter this year, according to a report from DigiTimes. In 2007, AMD's proportion of the discrete notebook GPU market was less than 20%-30% due to vendor concerns that Intel's relationships would change following the acquisition of ATI, and so were unwilling to adopt Intel and ATI combinations for their notebooks. Additionally, uncertainty over the Radeon HD 2000 series also impacted vendor and consumer confidence. However, in the second quarter of this year, around 55-60% of vendors' high-end notebooks will adopt AMD's M82 and M86 discrete GPUs due to their advantages in low power consumption and cost over NVIDIA's 9P, 9M and 9E notebook solutions. This can only be good for AMD/ATI if true.
Source:
DigiTimes
11 Comments on Report: AMD to Grab Over 50% of the Discrete Notebook GPU Market in 2Q08
It's about time we saw a HD3000 series GPU into Mobility Radeon.