Gross sales of graphics processing items — discrete and built-in — dropped 14.9% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2022 as demand for PCs amongst customers softened and distributors of elements and PC makers decreased their purchases. Because of this, shipments of standalone GPUs dropped extra considerably than shipments of built-in GPUs, which is why Nvidia suffered a 25.7% sequential decline in unit gross sales.
Unit shipments of PC CPUs decreased by 7% quarter-over-quarter and 33.7% year-over-year, in keeping with Jon Peddie Analysis (opens in new tab). Because of this, shipments of GPUs declined by 14.9% QoQ. Amongst three GPU distributors, AMD’s GPU gross sales declined the least by 7.6% sequentially, Intel’s shipments decreased by 9.8%, whereas Nvidia’s unit gross sales dropped by a whopping 25.7%, information by JPR exhibits.
The gross sales of discrete graphics playing cards for desktops (together with the finest graphics playing cards for gaming) declined by 22.6% sequentially within the second quarter to round 10.37 million items, the bottom variety of standalone desktop GPUs bought per quarter since Q2 2020. It maybe was anticipated as everybody who needed to get an AMD Radeon RX 6000-series or an Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series graphics board had already finished this.
As for market shares, Intel remained the main GPU provider in Q2 2022 with 62% of the market, AMD got here second with 20% (a big enhance from 16% in Q2 2021), whereas Nvidia was No. 3 with an 18% market share (up from 15% a yr in the past).
PC makers and distributors sometimes cut back their orders to chip firms within the second quarter. Nonetheless, this time round, they decreased their purchases extra considerably than normal, maybe as a result of they’d shares filled with stock and needed to dump what they’d at their fingers first.
“This quarter had total damaging outcomes for the GPU distributors, in comparison with the final quarter,” stated Jon Peddie, president of JPR. “World occasions such because the continued warfare in Ukraine, Russia’s manipulation of fuel provides to Western Europe, and the next nervousness these occasions create have put a dampener on Europe’s economic system; the UK is in recession with excessive inflation. Forecasting has by no means been more difficult, and in consequence, our forecast and others’ will get revised often as new information seems.”
