Workstation market seeing some return of momentum in Q3’11

Posted by Alex Herrera on December 8th 2011 | Permalink
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Last quarter, we labeled the workstation market's behavior with a simple one-word description: normal. Shipment results weren't great, but they weren't bad either. Now in less volatile times, no vendor would get enthused by such tepid numbers. But these haven't been those times. Not that anyone in our industry needs the refresher, but remember that we hadn't really seen anything approaching typical behavior in several years. From mid-2008 to mid-2011, we lived through the biggest economic downturn in a generation, followed by a relatively steady, but not stutter-free, recovery. Meanwhile, the closely related market for professional graphics, its results a harbinger…

The workstation market continues to experience healthy growth, hitting new high in Q4’10

Posted by Alex Herrera on March 9th 2011 | Permalink
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The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the workstation market take a noteworthy step forward  in its journey back from recessionary lows, setting a new high water mark for quarterly unit volume. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the fourth quarter, Jon Peddie Research senior analyst Alex Herrera reports the industry shipped 903.7 thousand workstations, representing a solid-though-moderate 6.4% sequential gain. Continued tempered growth should help reduce the potential for another dip in the workstation market, a dip the related market for professional graphics couldn't avoid in the previous quarter. Workstation-class GPUs had bounced back far more strongly…

Continued strength in the workstation market for Q3’10, but cautionary signs emerge as well

Posted by Alex Herrera on December 8th 2010 | Permalink
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The workstation market continued its steady determined march back to the  volume levels it saw prior to the economic collapse that kicked off in the fourth quarter of 2008. All in all, the industry shipped 849.7 thousand workstations in Q3'10, representing a robust 31.8% year-over-year growth. Most importantly, given our expectations and hopes for the quarter, Q3 was Goldilocks-ideal: not too hot, not too cold. Sequential growth slowed a bit to 6.9% (from the perhaps-a-little-too-hot 9.6% gain in Q2), showing some moderation the analyst expected should reduce the potential for a double-dip recovery. But the number was still stronger than what…