Analysis - Exclusive: Jon Peddie predicts great second half of 2009 for graphics mark

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Graphics guru discusses Ion, Fusion, Larrabee and the overall market in this exclusive interview.

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I think another reason the GPU sales has slowed down, is due to the lagacy of the 8800 series, and the fact that there's no real need to upgrade. I'm waiting for the next series of nVidia cards, as I have no major gain in performance, or need, from my current 8800GTX.

I think that the 40nm GPU's will provide an worthy performance gain to be worthwhile. This, and dx11 support!

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Originally Posted by Jon Peddie

I think it's brilliant - it's primarily a marketing move. Nvidia has taken one of their existing MBGs (motherboard graphics - the name for what used to be called IGPs but since there's no memory controller to integrate anymore it's just a GPU that gets glued on the system board and uses UMA) and repackaged it with an Atom.

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The 9300/9400 as a chipset for Intel FSB equipped parts (core2 for notebooks and desktops, atom for ion) does feature the memory controller.