Overall GPU Market dropped 5.6% from Q4’2007

Posted by Jon Peddie on April 30th 2008 | Permalink
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TIBURON, Calif—April 30, 2008—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the first calendar quarter of 2008. Traditionally, the first quarter has flat to negative growth for the computer industry as retailers and OEMs sell what's left from the holiday season; and this year was no different, in fact the quarter saw the biggest drop since 2005.   2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1 growth from Q4 5.18% -3.65% -7.63% -5.96% -3.37% -5.42% -5.59% Table 1: Growth rates from Q4 to Q1 from…