That 2023 is a dark year for the sale of hardware components is well known, but How low is the market still? Data from Jon Peddie Research corresponding to the first quarter of 2023 shows that in terms of charts, the situation is similar to what we published in relation to the third quarter of 2022, with a drop of around 43%.

Based on the data, Jon Peddie Research estimated that in approximately 54.8 million GPUs sold in Q1 2023 for PC regardless of format. The stated amount represents a decrease of 43% compared to the same period last year and a further 14% compared to the previous quarterthe fourth of 2022. The analyst stated that the decrease in the first quarter of the year compared to the fourth quarter of the previous is usually 6.1%.

When broken down by segment, desktop graphics fell 40% compared to Q1 2022, while notebook solutions fell 45%. At brand level, Intel was the most penalized with a 17.5% drop in shipments compared to the fourth quarter of 2022, while AMD shipments fell 7.8% and NVIDIA dropped 4.1%.. The green giant once again shows its strength against its rivals, which is perhaps due to how well it does in the field of artificial intelligence and its superiority in features such as DLSS rescaling and ray tracing.

He experienced the biggest decline Intel in the number of shipments has an effect on the fact that it was the only one of the three brands to experience a share level decline, specifically 2.9% according to Jon Peddie Research. AMD rose 0.9% and NVIDIA increased its share by 1.96%.

The situation in processors (CPUs) is not generally better, with shipments down 38% compared to the first quarter of 2023 with the same period last year and 15.6% compared to the last quarter of the previous year. Tablets remained more stable when comparing Q1 2023 data to the immediately preceding quarter. The analyst pointed out that NVIDIA has done a good job of cleaning up its inventory.

Jon Peddie Research predicts that supplies will remain low in the second quarter of 2023, but perhaps increase slightly during the second half of the year. Artificial intelligence may have a lot to say here, a sector that for some is becoming a bubble that can lead to a sharp rise in prices.

In short, and generally speaking, Jon Peddie Research doesn’t say anything that hasn’t already been known for a long time. The decline in PC component sales is mainly related to the bursting of the bubble that was created when many of us ended up trapped in our homes due to the pandemic, but recently you can with a few ports of PC games that have been arriving in a very sorry state lately, and a generation of graphics that hasn’t caught the interest of consumers in the mid-range.