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NVIDIA going strong in Q1 2009

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA States has an impressive first quarter of 2009, the company has succeeded with its position as number one seller on the GPU market. The news comes after earlier reports that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices took a market share of around 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008. However, NVIDIA now claims that its market share has increased to an impressive 68 percent, compared with the results in the fourth quarter of 2008.

According to a recent news article on Bit-tech, citing sources in the Research Mercury Research and Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA managed to increase its market share by 0.3% in Q1 2009. Meanwhile, his competitor, the figures of 1 percent, as chip maker continued to consolidate its dominant position in the GPU market. NVIDIA's overall share of the entire desktop discrete graphics market is currently 67%, with a profit of 5.4% compared with last year's figures Q4.

The total market for discrete graphics solutions, both desktop and notebook computers, chip maker's position is dominant. According to information from the company is a market leader with a market share of 66 percent. NVIDIA managed to take back 3 percent of market share compared with the results for last quarter. The figures also place the desktop graphics business before his laptop graphics business.

There is a segment where the company is still having trouble establishing itself as a leader. It is the market for integrated graphics chip, which Intel still has its way with a massive 49.7 per cent of the total graphics market, according to the figures presented by Jon Peddie Research.

NVIDIA has some of the emissions at the beginning of the year, including the company's latest 55nm GT200 series GPU's, which raised the performance on the desktop graphics market.

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