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IDC: AR, VR Headsets to Return to Growth

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IDC: AR, VR Headsets to Return to Growth

According to IDC, Q1 2018 global shipments of AR and VR headsets are down by -30.5% Y-o-Y-- but despite such a poor start the analyst believes the market will see a return to growth during the rest of the year.

The Q1 2018 decline was brought about by the unbundling of screenless VR headsets. During most of 2017, vendor bundled such headsets for free with the purchase of a high-end smartphone, but the practice essentially came to an end by early 2018. However IDC insists the headset market still has potential for growth, since more vendors will target the commercial market.

In the meantime more low-cost standalone VR headsts, such as the Oculus Go, should start hitting shelves this year. As such, IDC forecasts the overall AR and VR headset market will total 8.9 million units in 2018, a 6% increase over 2017, before reaching 65.9m units by 2022.

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JPR: Q1 2018 Breaks Add-in-Board Record

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JPR: Q1 2018 Breaks Add-in-Board Record

The graphics add-in-board (AIB) market beats seasonal trends in Q1 2018, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports-- shipments are up by 6.4% Q-o-Q, with revenues reaching over $5 billion.

AIBs use discrete GPUs, and are found in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, rending and mining farms, and devices such as scientific instruments. They are either bought directly by the customer or factory-installed by OEMs, and make the higher end of the graphics industry with discrete chips and private, often large, high-speed memory (as opposed to integrated GPUs sharing slower system memory).

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DigiTimes Warns of Sudden Graphics Card Drop

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DigiTimes Warns of Sudden Graphics Card Drop

The graphics card market is suddenly slowing down, DigiTimes says-- so much so Taiwanese vendors such as Gigabyte, Micro-Star International (MSI) and TUL expect April shipments to drop by as much as -40% M-o-M.

The reason of such slowdown? The abrupt waning of the cryptocurrency mining craze. DigiTimes says April 2018 sees channel distributors and larger cryptocurrency mining farm operators cut orders with mining graphics card and mining motherboard makers. Some mining farm operators have even stopped buying graphics cards, and are instead waiting the Q3 2018 rollout of Etherium mining machines by China's Bitmain.

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IDC: "Stable" Q1 2018 for EMEA PCs

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The EMEA traditional PC (desktop, notebook and workstation) market shows "stable growth" in Q1 2018, IDC reports-- the result of positive performance across both notebook and desktop categories.

According to the analyst, continued mobility adoption and increased customer awareness of the value proposition of premium devices helped maintain the growth trajectory of notebooks. Meanwhile the gaming market and commercial device refreshes in certain sub-regions drive "strong" desktop results.

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IDC: W. European Tablet Market Remains Weak

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IDC: W. European Tablet Market Remains Weak

According to IDC W. European talbet shipments total 10.6 million units in Q4 2017-- a -13.1% Y-o-Y decline, further indication of the weakening state of the market, primarily due to regular "slate" tablets.

Slate tablet shipments are down by -15.4% Y-o-Y for the quarter, as such devices are now considered to be little more than simple media consumption devices with little no no productive use cases. In comparison, detachable tablets see traction in at least some areas, and as such post a minor -2% Y-o-Y decline.

Detachable tablets see "very strong" commercial performance with 8.5% Y-o-Y growth and sales value (in euros) rising by 3.2% Y-o-Y, the result of increased enterprise adoption. The overall detachable tablet market is down by -1.4% Y-o-Y, with the consumer segment falling by -7.1% Y-o-Y as rapid convertible adoption cannibalises sales.

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