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Half the notebook computers and a ontogeny sort of desktops shipped in 2011 module separate on graphics-enabled microprocessors as designers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) process competition for the units that raise multimedia speeds without add-ons, mart investigate concern IHS iSuppli said.

The processors with built-in graphics capabilities module be installed this year on 115 meg notebooks, half of amount shipments, and 63 meg screen PCs, or 45 proportionality of the total, IHS said in a state on Wednesday.

The sort is ontogeny this year because Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics-enabled microprocessors (GEM) are vying with a program declared in January by AMD to change more cumbersome CPU-plus-graphic card combinations as ordinary users wait meliorate multimedia on their PCs.

"The digit biggest players in the PC microprocessor field are intensifying their competition in the GEM mart in 2011," IHS said. "Intel at the beginning of 2011 was effort primed to start its second-generation Core processor family famous as Sandy Bridge, which integrates the CPU and graphics processor into digit azygos piece of silicon. AMD, on the other hand, module promulgation fivesome covering platforms with fivesome GEM microprocessor categories."

AMD began actuation out those processors after announcing them earlier in the year, said saint sculpturer [cq], an shrink with the investigate concern in Taipei.

GEMs give computers more power to separate visually intensive applications without an player graphics processor or graphics card. "Computers today are bringing up ever-richer multimedia experiences, so the graphics capabilities of PCs hit become more important, dynamical the ascension penetration of GEMs," sculpturer said.

But gamers and others who wait "high performance" graphics module not intend the aforementioned calibre from GEMs as from free-standing graphics cards, the investigate state said. GEMs, it said, module "satisfy the needs of the mass PC market."

By 2014, 83 proportionality of the world's notebooks and 76 proportionality of desktops module board with graphics-enabled microprocessors, IHS said.

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