Jon Peddie Research has just published the results of graphics solutions market in the third quarter of 2009. The situation has improved significantly since there is an increase of 21.2% over the previous quarter. It's the largest increase in quarter to quarter in nine years.

Intel continues to rise and reached 52.7% of the market, NVIDIA fall heavily to stabilize at 24.9% while AMD rose to 19.8%. If we consider the gains from quarter to quarter, Intel is 25.2% better, AMD rose by 30.2% and 3.3% NVIDIA.

Let us look more closely at the graphics (thus excluding integrated solutions). This market continues to decline, but the fall is more contained for over a year with "just" 15%. 16.81 million Cards were sold this quarter. AMD gets 35% of the market, against 64% at NVIDIA.

The fourth quarter 2009 could be less glorious. Some suggest that the OEM may have overestimated the demand for PC after the launch of Windows 7 and would therefore surplus. While the overall figures could be disappointing, however, AMD has something to smile. The Texas firm should board the 20% market share with its new series ATI Radeon HD 5000. AMD could even pass NVIDIA continues its inexorable decline.