Market research firm Jon Peddie Research released the latest chip industry report disclosing GPU shipments and market share by vendor for the fourth quarter of 2009. AMD's market share increased significantly in 2017 from the previous year 13% in the third quarter rose to 14.2%; Intel and Nvidia are on the decline.
Jon Peddie also mentioned that unlike AMD or NVIDIA, Intel's market share is less affected by digital currency because Intel integrates GPUs or iGPUs for sale on desktops or laptops, so the tide of digital currencies Ebb and flow of Intel's GPU sales have little effect.
Shipments, GPU chip last year fell 4.8% year-on-year, desktop chip fell 2%, while the notebook fell 7%, but the digital currency players support the chip industry significant last year, the miners contributed more than 300 Sales of thousands of independent graphics processors, sales of 776 million US dollars.
Fourth quarter shipments increased 8.08% QoQ, Intel dropped 1.98%, NVIDIA shipments fell as much as 6%.
According to Jon Peddie, AMD is the chip maker most benefited from the mining boom, and AMD is the dominant chipset for digging for digital currency, with chip demand also boosting significantly as digital currencies soared in the fourth quarter of last year.
At the end of last month, AMD released its fourth-quarter earnings report that adjusted EPS reached $ 0.08 in the fourth quarter, exceeding the market expectation of $ 0.05.After AMD released its earnings, analysts pointed out that the digital currency such as bitcoin late last year will not only boost the last four Quarterly performance of AMD, the first quarter of this year's performance guidance will be good.
'The current situation is that miners are swallowing the supply of the entire graphics card, and now the yield can not keep up with the huge demand.' 'Jon Peddie mentioned that miners have contributed more to GPU sales than the game, though the game Is the most important impetus GPU sales.
Last quarter of the second quarter of last year, the digital currency mining industry has also pushed up the quarter GPU sales.However, the third quarter of digital currency is facing a global regulatory tightening, PC games also ushered in strong growth, mining mining GPU sales impact weaken.
However, Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, said chip demand from miners may slow in the future, and gamers who already own the GPU chip can 'mine mine without the game' to offset some of the demand, but ' Prices will not decline in the next period of time '.