Integrated graphics adapters have dominated the notebook market for
many years thanks to their low power consumption, low cost and the fact
that they did not increase the size of notebooks. However, in the last
two years mobile graphics processors started to get more popular.
According to a high-ranking Nvidia Corp. executive, in 2011 there will
be more notebooks with standalone graphics processors than in 2010.
The number of notebook designs that support discrete graphics option
this year will be higher compared to that in 2010 and prior years, said
Drew Henry, general manager of GeForce business at Nvidia, at the
company's financial analyst day. Mr. Henry declined to get exact numbers
even about Nvidia's own design wins, but the general trends outlined by
the company's arch-rival ATI (graphics business unit of Advanced Micro
Devices) and industrial analysts confirm that slowly but surely the
amount of notebooks with discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) are
gaining ground.
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