According to Jon Peddie Research, third-quarter graphics processing unit shipments were up both year over year and quarter over quarter. However, sales of integrated GPUs were up both QoQ and YoY as the processor market was up, whereas supplies of discrete GPUs were down as AMD and Nvidia were preparing new offerings.
According to JPR, the market shipped 73.6 million iGPUs and dGPUs during the quarter. GPU shipments grew 3.4% compared to the previous quarter and 2.4% year-over-year. Notebook GPUs saw a significant 5.9% increase, while desktop graphics fell 5.6%. The industry also supplied 66.5 million PC CPUs (almost all feature integrated graphics), so shipments of processors rose 12% quarterly and 7.8% year-over-year. AMD outperformed its competitor Intel with a 15% increase in CPU shipments, while Intel experienced a 12% decline, something that Mercury Research reported last month.
