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Jon Peddie predicts great second half of 2009 for graphics market

HEXUS.channel spoke to Jon Peddie to find out the thinking behind the prediction of a drop in graphics shipments in Q4, but a hope that things would pick up again in the second half of this year.

Robert Dow

Last week leading graphics market research outfit Jon Peddie Research announced a drop in graphics shipments in Q4, but revealed a hope that things would pick up again in the second half of this year.

HEXUS.channel spoke to Jon Peddie himself to find out the thinking behind that prediction and to pick his brains about the graphics market.

Read on to find out Peddie’s thoughts on NVIDIA’s Ion (as well as how to write its name), AMD’s Fusion concept and Intel’s Larrabee discrete graphics plans, as well as some unique insight into the industry in general.