… This unprecedented decline casts a very ominous light on the PC industry, which had hoped that Windows 8 would bolster sales -- but instead, Microsoft's new OS is a major factor in the most precipitous decline in history. …
… CPU sales declined year-over-year by 34% and quarter-over-quarter by 19%. Those are the biggest declines for both metrics Mercury has ever tabulated in its 30 years of existence. The reasons for the decline include excess inventory and low demand for CPUs. …
… Gains in Chromebook shipments, for example, could be offset by a decline in Atom sales or iPad sales. …
… That's the word from Jon Peddie Research, who found GPU sales were up a whopping 35 percent year-on-year and down just 0.3 percent from Q4 2020. The typical decline in Q1 is 7 percent. …
… Image by If you pay attention to financial reports, however, you may recall that AMD's Q2 2019 sales results were reasonable, but not spectacular. Both companies reported year-on-year sales declines. …
… The not planned in the quarter was just the ASP declined much greater than we had anticipated for NSG. We were in the -- we were expecting kind of mid-20s to 30 percent ASP declines. …
… This shift appears related to a recent sharp decline in Ethereum prices, as shown in the graph below: Image by THG has some supplementary information Opens in a new window showing that eBay GPU sales fell in January compared to December, but that hasn't stopped prices from moving downward. …
… It's possible that we'll see PC sales decline back towards the historical average while gamers kick off a robust upgrade cycle for the next 12-24 months. …
… These declines, if DigiTimes is right, are a further indication of who is actually capturing the value here -- and it wasn't Nvidia or AMD. …
… Desktop sales fell 5 percent in 2017, a much steeper drop in that segment than forecast for the year, and the decline in desktop ASPs from Q4 2016 to Q4 2017 could also be indicative of increased competition from Team Green. …