Professional Graphics Card Market Worth $17 Billion in 2010
Jon Peddie Research released a new report today that calls the add-in board market worth $4.4 billion in Q4, 2010 and $17 billion for 2010. The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the workstation market take a noteworthy step forward in its journey back from recessionary lows, setting a new high water mark for quarterly unit volume. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the fourth quarter, Jon Peddie Research senior analyst Alex Herrera reports the industry shipped 903.7 thousand workstations, representing a solid-though-moderate 6.4% sequential gain.
“With professional graphics shipments most often a short-term prognosticator for the fortunes of workstations, the former’s recent history raised concern we might see the latter experience its own double-dip,” Herrera commented. “But with numbers for Q3 and Q4 coming in more restrained, we’re more optimistic that workstations will avoid a second sustained, non-cyclical drop in the near term.”
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