AMD Surpasses Nvidia in graphics chip shipments

People everywhere are abuzz about the recent news that AMD just barely slipped past NVidia to achieve the position as #1 provider of discrete graphics chips.

AMD’s ATI graphics unit took 51 percent of the standalone, or “discrete,” graphics chip market compared to Nvidia’s share that was just shy of 49 percent, according to Mercury Research, a Cave Creek, Arizona firm that tracks graphics chip shipments. This is a sharp reversal from the same period a year ago when Nvidia had about 59 percent of the market and AMD had just under 41 percent.

If you recall, this is pretty much what I predicted in my “Predictions for 2010“, that ATI would gain some pretty significant market share while NVidia was ‘rallying the troops’ in preparation of Fermi.  Now that Fermi is out and shipping, I think we’ll see things return to the state of before as NVidia regains it’s previous position as #1.

via AMD tops Nvidia in graphics chip shipments | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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