The third quarter left a mixed picture at many companies, including among those who are active in the graphics business. AMD could not continue after a previously successful year in the third quarter of the series and lost up 2.7 percent market share compared to the second quarter.

With the decline of formerly 25.0 to 22.3 percent, market share is still ahead of the big competitors NVIDIA AMD. This could expand its market share compared to the second quarter and sell more video cards. Now, instead of 20.7%, NVIDIA according to Jon Peddie research holds 21.2 percent. Biggest beneficiaries is once again the company Intel, which further strengthen its market leadership. With an increase of 53.4 on 55,6 continue to confidently keeping the upper hand.

The numbers reflect exactly the focus on the markets. Because while the graphics market for notebooks, in which AMD has become very active, declined by 8.4 percent, sales of desktop solutions to 8.4 percent rose – a traditional NVIDIA hobbyhorse. Surprisingly, the overall market compared with the second quarter by 0.9 percent went back.

Despite the rather murky figures in the third quarter, the market researchers for the full year expect extradition of 473,1 million GPUs. In 2009, the number stood at 414,2 million graphics chips.