GPU Makers Expected To See Slow Start To 2009
When looking specifically at GPU vendors, we see VIA suffering the most with a nearly 72 percent year-to-year drop, while Intel shipments sagged by around 21 percent. AMD saw its own shipments decline 24 percent, while NVIDIA, Matrox and SiS saw decreases of 34 percent, 46 percent and 61 percent, respectively. Not surprisingly, the 40 percent drop in desktop PC shipments was largely to blame, and the general economic climate likely forced to-be GPU buyers to deal with their current frame rates a few months longer.

The silver lining to all of this is that the research does expect Q3 and Q4 2009 to be "strong," but they'll have to