JPR Says New Intel & AMD CPU’s Will Cut Discrete GPU Market in Half by 2014
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) made an announcement today that might come as a shock to many of our readers. You likely know that AMD Fusion and Intel Sandy Bridge processors are coming out in the months to come and are said to offer enough graphics horse power to do what mainstream users demand when it comes to graphics processing. Well, it appears that JPR believes that this will me a major inflection point and now that the integration of powerful SIMD graphics processing elements with multi-core, multi-stage scalar X86 CPUs will be taking place it will change what we once thought was needed in a pc system. JPR feels that the IGP – integrated graphics processor, will fade out of existence and that discrete graphics will be inside just 10% of computers in 2015!
Moving graphics into the CPUs will be attractive first to the builders of low-cost machines. Intel’s Core i5 (Clarkdale and Arrandale), which are Embedded Processor Graphics (EPG) units, were the first wave. Intel’s Sandybridge will be next generation, while AMD will introduce a massive SIMD GPU array in their fusion processors (Ontario and Llano) which will be the first Heterogeneous Processor Units (HPUs.) The impact in the total PC and related market on discrete GPUs due to the combination of devices being offered with integrated graphics (IGPs, EPGs, and HPUs) will break the historical rise of discrete GPU sales and put the category in decline.
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