Sales of hard disk drives in the first quarter dropped by a whopping 35% year-over-year in Q1 2023 as PC and consumer electronics (CE) makers remained cautious getting new hardware due to uncertain demand. But the most surprising event during the quarter was continued shrinkage of nearline HDD shipments, the most lucrative part of the…
As demand for personal computers softened in recent quarters, sales of CPUs declined in Q4 2022, and so did shipments of GPUs since most client systems feature integrated graphics. Jon Peddie Research estimates that 64.2 million discrete and integrated GPUs in total were sold last quarter, a 15.4% decline sequentially and a 38% decrease year-over-year. (Image credit:…
AMD on Tuesday reported its revenue of $6.6 billion for the second quarter of 2022, its highest quarterly revenue ever. In addition, all AMD products, including CPUs and GPUs, increased in Q2 2022. Nonetheless, shipments of products for client PCs started to demonstrate softness because of growing inflation and a challenging macroeconomic environment. AMD’s revenue…
In our rapidly changing world demand for various chips is high. So high that foundries can increase their quotes without fearing to lose customers. But TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) stands apart from its rivals. TSMC has more capacity than any other foundry, and it has leading-edge technologies not available from its rivals. Increased prices, extraordinary…
Sales of discrete GPUs in the first quarter were up both sequentially and year-over-year due to high demand for PCs in general and gaming PCs in particular, according to Mercury Research. Nvidia continued to dominate the market,  AMD has been gaining CPU sales and market share in the recent years particularly in the gaming segment…
