By Telecom Lead Team: Chip major Qualcomm has shipped the
most mobile devices GPUs last year, according to Jon Peddie Research. Apple,
Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Nvidia are the other top players.
Other suppliers in the market include Broadcom,
Freescale, Intel, Marvell, MediaTek, Rockchip, St-Erickson, and Wonder Media.
Jon Peddie Research said that shipments during the
fourth quarter of 2011 of GPUs in mobile devices (tablets and smart phones) had
a CAGR for the year (Q1 to Q4) of 18 percent. Samsung’s sales surged in Q3 and
Q4 giving them the highest CAGR for the year (39 percent), Followed by Apple
(26 percent), and Qualcomm (16.5 percent) which was already enjoying high shipment
rates.
In terms of shipments Qualcomm led the pact and ended up
with 31 percent market share for the year, followed by Apple (23 percent) and
TI (17 percent).
|
Market Share |
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Q1’11 |
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Q2’11 |
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Q3’11 |
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Q4’11 |
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2011 |
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Qualcomm |
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31.6 percent |
|
|
32.6 percent |
|
|
31.6 percent |
|
|
30.2 percent |
|
|
31.4 percent |
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Apple |
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22.2 percent |
|
|
21.4 percent |
|
|
18.7 percent |
|
|
27.1 percent |
|
|
22.7 percent |
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TI |
|
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20.6 percent |
|
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16.2 percent |
|
|
15.9 percent |
|
|
16.2 percent |
|
|
17.0 percent |
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Samsung |
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9.2 percent |
|
|
13.9 percent |
|
|
15.9 percent |
|
|
14.9 percent |
|
|
13.8 percent |
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Nvidia |
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2.8 percent |
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3.6 percent |
|
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4.1 percent |
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1.7 percent |
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3.0 percent |
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Others |
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13.4 percent |
|
|
12.2 percent |
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|
13.8 percent |
|
|
9.9 percent |
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|
12.1 percent |
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Table 1: Relative market share for mobile device GPU |
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Mobile devices GPUs are as powerful or more so as
entry-level PC GPUs and run applications that use Open GL ES 1.1 to 2.0. They
have programmable shaders and can deliver amazing game play, UI and browser
acceleration, and accelerate the new potentially killer app augmented-reality
(AR).
In addition to the semiconductor suppliers there are four
GPU IP suppliers: ARM, DMP, Imagination Technologies, and Vivante. Those
companies provide IP to all of the SoC builders except Broadcom, Nvidia, and
Qualcomm.
2012 is shaping up to be a battle royal, with Samsung
making big gains, Apple continuing its relentless growth, TI fighting back and
Nvidia gaining design wins.
