Nvidia offers a small piece of hardware to power the AI projects of "developers, makers and enthusiasts"-- the Jetson Nano, a board promising to deliver 472 GFLOPS of processing power from a package measuring just 70 x 45mm.

The Nano is the latest offering in the Jetson line of embedded computing boards aimed at edge computing applications. What makes the Nano unique is the pricetag, since it costs all of $99 while still packing some fairly impressive specifications. For the curious, it carries a quad-core ARM A57 processor running at 1.43GHz, a 128-CUDA core Maxwell GPU, 16GB eMMC flash and 4GB DDR4 RAM, all within a 5W power envelope.

According to IDC, global shipments of personal computing devices (PCD)-- comprising traditional PCs and tablets-- are to decline by -3.3% in 2019, before the market shrinks to 372.6 million units in 2023 with a CAGR of -1.2%.

Detachables should grow "modestly" over the 5-year forecast period, with a CAGR of 4.6%. IDC says the product category should see a stronger impact in the commercial segment, as vendors increasingly focus on the enterprise and education markets for sales.

Education-centric Chrome-based devices are to find some traction as detachable Chrome tablets enter the scene.

On the other hand, slate tablets will continue their decline with a CAGR of -4.4%. The market is becoming increasingly concentrated around the holiday quarters, and competition from key players has lead to more brands either reducing their presence or exiting the market altogether.

According to Jon Peddie Research (JPR) the news is not too good for the GPU market-- global shipments are down by -3.3% on a Y-o-Y basis (or by -2.65% Q-o-Q), with all major vendors seeing declines.

In fact, Nvidia shipments see a -7.6% Q-o-Q drop, AMD shipments are down by -6.8% Q-o-Q and Intel shipments see a -0.7% Q-o-Q decline. The two big vendors also see a drop in market share, as AMD and Nvidia market share decreased by -0.6% and -0.82% respectively. On the other hand Intel market share is up by 1.4%.

According to the TrendForce DRAMeXchange division, ongoing oversupply and weak demand will bring about "significant" memory price drops during H1 2019, with prices falling by no less than -15% Q-o-Q in Q2 2019.

Contract prices for DRAM products across all application markets already declined by -15% M-o-M in January 2019, the analyst says, and prices should continue to fall in February and March. As a result, Q1 2019 PC DRAM prices are down by -20% Q-o-Q, while server DRAM prices see an even larger drop of nearly -30% Q-o-Q.

Looking ahead to Q2 2019, DRAMeXchange predicts some recovery in demand, even if oversupply issues persist, leading to the aforementioned price drop of -15% Q-o-Q. As for H2 2019, the analyst believes uncertainties brought about by political and economic events across the world will continue to constrain growth in end demand, and upcoming sources of demand (such as 5G, AIoT, IIoT and automotive electrics) will not affect the DRAM market in 2019.