Graphics Surges to Strongest Growth in Nine Years

In unit sales of graphics processors, AMD gained share at the expense of Nvidia, market researcher Jon Peddie Research said Monday.
In total, third-quarter graphics shipments soared 21.2 percent to 119.45 million units, with notebooks leading the way. Notebook graphics sales soared 36.2 percent to 56.2 million units.
It was the strongest overall sequential growth for the graphics market in nine years, Peddie reported.
"A total of 119.45 million units were shipped in the third quarter, exceeding the record 111 million units that shipped in Q3, 2008," Peddie said in a statement. "So the market has caught up with, and exceeded, last year's highs. The crash of fall 2008 is now behind us."
Intel, as expected, continued to hold the top spot, bolstered by its installed base of integrated graphics chipsets. But AMD surged back, although it still lags behind Nvidia.