Goodbye to traditional Intel graphics?

From CNET News.com: A new report says the longstanding integrated graphics chip market will disappear--a market that Intel currently dominates.

In a report entitled "Integrated graphics chip market to disappear by 2012," Tiburon, Calif.-based Jon Peddie Research forecasts the end of the market for "the popular integrated graphics processor chipset...after 15 years of stellar growth."

Many low-end and mainstream consumer and business laptops sold over the last five years use Intel graphics built into the chipset, a low-performance but cheaper alternative to discrete graphics chips from Nvidia and ATI. That's made Intel, ironically enough, the market leader in graphics chip market share despite the performance deficit. In 2008, Intel's market share, by quarter, was typically over 50 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices (ATI's parent company) and Nvidia bounced around in the 20 to 30 percent range.

Overall, in 2008, 67 percent of the graphics chips shipped were integrated. In 2011 this will drop to 20 percent, and by 2013 it will be less than 1 percent, according to Jon Peddie.

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