In May 3Dfx gained 27% of the market, while rival ATI stayed ahead with 29% of the overall consumer PC market.
Drone makers are hoping that hobbyist demand for the gadgets which never really materialized for flying drones will light a fire under the overall consumer drone market.
However, while online and mobile games are growing their scale and share of the overall market, consumer markets are expected to continue to fragment, and profitable business models will become harder to come by.
During that period, the overall consumer, or trade, book market grew slightly more than 12percentt.
Apple's iPhone could be facing a downturn in overall consumer interest in key markets including Singapore and Hong Kong, according to a report from Reuters based on StatCounter traffic figures from this past weekend.
For example, relating consumer credit and home mortgage debt to personal consumption expenditures, you'd construe this debt, so extended over the past six years, is likely to contract and thereby inhibit the housing market and overall consumer spending.
And given that the country represents about half of the consumer market of Latin America overall, it's a huge opportunity, according to Veras.
Wearables so far have a pretty limited audience overall in terms of the global consumer market, but they could become a lot more integral to the lives of average people in the future.
Earlier today, Bear Stearns said it expects management to address the overall tone of end-markets, particularly the consumer market, given the upcoming holiday shopping season.
While the consumer market makes up only about 15percentt of Dell's overall global business, consumer sales, particularly notebook sales in the United States, have been the strongest segment of the PC industry, growing well over 50percentt in 2006.
