IBM offers notebooks with ATI graphics, but does not have any Nvidia models.
Companies like IBM choose ATI for their notebooks as the company focuses on mobile users, CEO Ho said.
"Our mind-set is to provide the same products and features on notebooks as are found on desktops," he said. "We were the first to provide 3D graphics on notebooks, then we added DVD playback and a lot of other features. And now that notebook screens are as big as desktops', there is a greater demand for better graphics."
Nvidia's Heng said that her company was improving its performance in the notebook market, citing a 12 percent increase last quarter reported in Mercury's figures.
"Many of the world's leading notebook manufacturers, such as Toshiba, Apple, Dell, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, have adopted our GeForce FX Go series GPUs [graphics processing units]."
Gartner Inc and International Data Corp have predicted the notebook computer market will reach almost 70 million units by 2007 compared to around 160 million desktops the same year. This means notebooks will be 30 percent of the total computer market, up from 23 percent last year.
The major driving factors for the switch to notebooks are gaming and multimedia functions like TV tuners and DVD-quality video via the Internet as well as mobile working trends, the researchers have predicted.
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