Dr Dobb’s Journal brings us news of a live webcast tomorrow at 2pm Central where Jon Peddie will be talking about the dynamics of the GPU market. In the description, I found this paragraph particularly interesting:
GPU unit sales have long outstripped PC sales. The average PC has 1.4 GPUs, but that ratio will increase with heterogeneous compute, hybrid, and graphics scaling. The Integrated Processor+ Graphics-based processor will terminate the IGP market without doubt and impact midrange discrete GPU sales. But as good as they will be, they will always have limitations due to power, size, and price, while the need for more graphics, more displays, more compute, or hybrid operation will be satisfied by a discrete GPU.
A average of 1.4 GPU’s in the average PC? So for every computer running a single integrated graphics chip, there’s a matching computer running SLI? That doesn’t sound right to me, unless they’re counting ignored/forgotten GPU’s (desktops with a real NVidia card installed), or perhaps they are only considering PC’s in the last year?
