The Problem for High-end Hardware

Entry and Mid-range graphics becoming “good enough”

• Aggressive advances in low-cost performance
  • This years $200 boards = performance of last year’s $1,000 boards
  • This years $1,000 boards = performance of last year’s $3,000 boards
• The market for the highest-end performance is shrinking
  • Erosion from below
• Total Annual Market for multi-thousand $ graphics boards ᝺,000
  • Less than $50M total available market
• Not a big enough market to fund high-end chip development
  • High-end graphics vendors may become niched into extinction

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