Two days ago, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), published the new numbers regarding the graphic card manufacturers' market share for the first quarter of 2009. According to their research, both Intel and Nvidia were able to gain, while AMD/ATI lost market shares. Intel is current market leader with 49.7% and 37.20 million sold untis, Nvidia is second with 31.1% market share and 23.26 million untis, and AMD/ATI was only able to sell 12.81 million units, bringing their market share down to 17.1%. Another interesting observation was that after eight consecutive years, for the first time, the negative sales from Q4 to Q1 turned into positive sales, with a 3.29% change from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009.

All in all and compared year to year, things didn't look so good, though - which had to be expected, considering the current economical crisis. In raw numbers this means that "shipments dropped to 74.9 million units, -21.1% from this quarter last year."