PC graphics shipments down 0.9% in Q3, AMD slips as Intel and Nvidia gain

[amenx]

People should not make far reaching judgments in the GPU market. Its a highly volatile market where things can change very rapidly. New product lines are introduced almost on a yearly basis. Not too long ago NV was owning AMD (with the 8 series). NV slipped with ONE product range ( Fermi) and people are thinking a cataclysmic event occurred. But how long did NV hold the DX10 market before AMD even had a single DX10 card? So it may be proper to keep things in perspective, and when one manufacturer *momentarily* slips, it can quickly recover. The GPU market is just too volatile to put a finger on for any proper length of time.

 

[Arkadrel]

ur right amenx, nvidia has like 1.7billion in cash flow... a few 100 million+ $ a quarter losses arnt that bad. It wont break the camles back.

 

[taltamir]

the reason why market share is so important is because it affects monopoly practices.
for example, nvidia is trying to create a market lock in with physX (way too early too, they are trying to abuse their non existent monopoly), marketshare determines what technology is dominant... if one company was to gain sufficient dominance then games will assume its dominance and focus on developing for it.

at the moment neither company has sufficient marketshare to act like a monopoly, instead we have a duopoly where companies must create games that run well on both cards from both companies.

 

[Scali]

for example, nvidia is trying to create a market lock in with physX (way too early too, they are trying to abuse their non existent monopoly)

Well, they started PhysX more than 2 years ago, when they were pretty dominant in the DX10 market (Radeon 2000-series was a complete flop, 3000-series was underperforming, and 4000-series was a good product, but it didn't actually seem to catch on in the marketplace, it seemed to be mainly loved by people discussing it on forums, not by the people who actually bought the hardware).
At that time, nVidia outsold AMD/ATi about 2:1.

 

[Scali]

IIRC they have long surpassed XP in more gaming centric surveys such as steam.

Yup, Windows 7 x64 alone has surpassed XP already.