First and foremost, we can almost certainly say that recession is over and done with, and market recovery is on its way. In a paper released earlier today by Jon Peddie Research, this research firm market shows good figures for the troublesome GPU market.
According to the figures at hand, Q2'2009 saw GPU market expanding to 98.30 million chips, a massive 31.3% improvement over the recession-stricken first quarter of 2009. 12 months ago, the market was 94.42 million units, meaning that GPU market overtook the 2008 results.
Out of these almost five million extra GPUs, the majority went to AMD, who market that they had 41.1% growth from the first to second quarter of 2009. AMD's ATI Radeon and FirePro families now take 18.4% of world-wide graphics market, up from a recession-stricken 12.81% in Q1'2009. BSoN
