Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments elevated by 42.2% and elevated by 6.2% year-to-year. The market shares for the desktop discrete GPU suppliers shifted within the quarter, Nvidia considerably elevated market share from final quarter, whereas AMD elevated share year-over-year.
Add-in boards (AIBs) utilizing discrete GPUs are present in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, rendering and mining farms, and different gadgets comparable to scientific devices. They are bought on to clients as aftermarket merchandise or are manufacturing facility put in by OEMs. In all circumstances, AIBs characterize the upper finish of the graphics trade with their discrete chips and devoted, usually giant, high-speed reminiscence. Systems with built-in GPUs in CPUs share slower system reminiscence.
The PC AIB market now has simply two chip (GPU) suppliers which additionally construct and promote AIBs. The major suppliers of GPUs are AMD and Nvidia. There are 54 AIB suppliers. They are the AIB OEM clients of the 2 main GPU suppliers, which they name companions. Some of the AIB suppliers supply AMD and Nvidia-based merchandise, and others supply just one or the opposite.
In addition to privately branded AIBs supplied worldwide, a few dozen PC suppliers supply AIBs as a part of a system, and/or as an choice, and a few supply AIBs as separate aftermarket merchandise. We have been monitoring quarterly AIB shipments since 1987—the quantity of these boards peaked in 1999, reaching 114 million models when each PC had a graphics AIB in them. This quarter 10.5 million AIBs shipped.
The AIB market hit $15 billion final yr and is forecasted to be $15 billion by 2023.
Since 1981, 1,299 million AIBs have been shipped.
The third quarter is generally the strongest from the earlier quarter. This quarter it was up 42.2% from the final quarter. That is above the ten-year common of 14.9% which is unusually excessive when in comparison with the desktop PC market, which elevated 9.6% from the final quarter.
On a year-to-year foundation, we discovered that whole AIB shipments through the quarter rose 6.2%, which is bigger than desktop PCs, which fell -15.9% from the identical quarter a yr in the past. Overall, AIBs shipments had been declining barely, however not as nice because the PC attributable to gaming. However, in 2015 when the usage of AIB for cryptocurrency mining turned widespread, AIB gross sales began to rise whereas PC gross sales fell.
Despite the general PC churn, considerably attributable to tablets and embedded graphics, the PC gaming momentum continues to construct and is the intense spot within the AIB market. The impression and affect of eSports has additionally contributed to market progress and has attracted new customers. VR continues to be attention-grabbing however will not be having a measurable affect on the AIB market.
