AMD overtakes Nvidia's GPU market share

It looks as though Nvidia has paid a harsh price for delaying its Fermi architecture, as research shows that AMD has overtaken the green graphics giant in terms of discrete GPU shipments.  Cnet reports that AMD commanded a 51 per cent share of the discrete graphics pie in the second quarter of this year, compared with Nvidia's slightly smaller 49 per cent slice. The figures come from semiconductor analyst firm Mercury Research, which issued its quarterly...