Deliveries of discrete GPUs (GPUs) demonstrated record growth due to high demand for equipment for the production of crypto-currency. This is stated in a study by Jon Peddie Research.
According to analysts, in April-June 2017 GPU shipments globally increased by 7.2% compared to the previous three months.
On an annual basis, graphical solutions shipments climbed 6.4%. Segments of products for desktops and laptops showed an increase of 5% and 7% respectively.
As part of the study, the specialists examined the categories of discrete, integrated and hybrid processors, embedded graphics of various terminals and industrial computers, as well as chips on the x86 architecture for tablet computers.
The report said that in the second quarter of 2017, discrete GPU shipments jumped by 31% relative to the first quarter, which was never. This was due to strong sales of computer equipment used for mining bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-currencies.
Cryptocurrency feature is that a single center responsible for the "issue" of virtual money, do not exist, and users will be able "to produce" coins, cycling for this video card in their own computers, which calculate hashes block headers.
According to Jon Peddie Research, AMD's share in the global GPU market in the second quarter of 2017 was 13.1%, which roughly corresponds to the result of a year ago. On a quarterly basis, the presence indicator decreased by 1.3 percentage points (n.
The release of hybrid processors for desktop computers from AMD fell by 22.2%, for laptops - by 18.8%. Shipments of discrete chips for desktops from the company decreased by 35% from quarter to quarter, and in the segment of portable PC shipments decreased by 16%.
The largest producer of GPU remains Intel, whose market share reached 71.1% in the second quarter of 2017. This is 3 and 0.8 p. More relative to the indicators of quarterly and a year ago, respectively. The company reduced the supply of embedded graphics solutions for desktops by 10.5% from quarter to quarter, in the segment of laptops there was an 8% decline. Deliveries of all types of computer GPU from Intel fell by 13.9%.