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AMD takes lead in discrete mobile GPU market

Final8y

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AMD seems to have done well with its Radeon HD4xxx series of discrete mobile GPUs, announcing that it has taken the lead in the discrete notebook graphics market.

Bear in mind that it did have some help from Nvidia, which got its fair share of bad press following thermal issues on its last gen Geforce 8xxx series parts used in a number of designs by leading notebook vendors.

AMD recorded a 36.5 percent market share gain in the market over the first six months of 2009, and an 87.3 percent increase in the number of units shipped in Q2 sequentially. All in all, it now has a 53 percent market share in discrete notebook graphics.

AMD is now claiming over 200 design wins for its HD4000 series mobile parts, which sounds impressive. However, it's worth pointing out that its 40nm parts, announced back at CeBIT, don't seem to have taken off well.
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Are there any figures for any growth it has got in the mainstream desltop pc market out of curiosity since the release of the 4xxx series because they seem to be very popular amongst users. Main reason i am interested (though a lousy googler) is because i think effort to gain market share is one of the driving forces behind amd\ati's competitive pricing and i have that feeling in the back of my mind iif they do really well they might catch the nvidia bug on pricing of future gpu's.
 
they won't, and the market share has increased but not dramatically.

Its just really this simple, if the cards are £300, your average user only upgrades every 3 years, at £150, your average user will likely upgrade every year. The cheaper you make stuff, the more people buy it.

They can sell 2million £300 cards, or 25million £150 cards while making 10 times the profit.

Putting prices up just because they have a strong market share, would simply drop their sales and profits. Who actively reduces profits without a reason?
 
"Who actively reduces profits without a reason?" Nvidia seem to be good at doing that and i just don't want ati going the same route if they manage to get on top for any period of time.
 
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