Nvidia increases its market share compared to last quarter

The complementary cards market decreased in Q2'18 with respect to the previous quarter. Market shares for discrete desktop GPU providers changed in the quarter, Nvidia increased its market share from the previous quarter, while AMD enjoyed an increase in market share year-over-year.

Nvidia continues its dominance in the GPU sector

The second quarter traditionally shows a decrease in shipments compared to the previous quarter, this quarter showed a decrease of 28.0%, which is -18.2% below the ten-year average of -9.8%, which is very low compared to the desktop PC market, which decreased 3.4% quarter-over-quarter. On an annual basis, we found that AIB's total shipments during the quarter fell 5.7%, while desktops increased 8.8% in the same quarter a year ago, this discrepancy reflects the weakening of the crypto-mining market.

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Overall, AIB shipments had declined slightly, but not as much as the PC due to gaming and crypto. In 2015, when the use of AIB for cryptocurrency mining became widespread, AIB sales began to increase, while PC sales fell. In Q1'18, AIB's demand for Crypto-mining ended, due to a change from an Ethereum consensus, based on the Proof of Work system, to one based on the so-called Proof of Stake. That change dramatically reduced the need for localized memory, and that made expensive AIBs no longer necessary. Also, the Ethereum price fell.

However, despite the general PC abandonment, somewhat due to tablets and integrated graphics, the momentum for PC games continues to grow and is the bright spot in the AIB market. The impact and influence of eSports have also contributed to the growth of the market and attracted new users.

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