Since only Lynnfield quad-core launches in Q3 2009, when Intel
talks about percentage of socket H CPUs, at least until Q1 this number mainly
includes quad-core Lynnfields. We still cannot say Core i5 as some of these CPUs
will be branded as Core i7, depending on its speed. Clarkdale will probably
start shipping to big customers in Q4 2009 but it won't launch until Q1 2010.
Intel plans that one percent of CPUs i n Q3 will feature
socket H support, socket B for Core i7 CPUs will be represented with miserable
two percent while the clear winner is Socket T 775 for Core 2 and Pentium /
Celeron CPUs with 91 percent. Six percent of CPUs won't have a socket, and all of
them are Atom based.
In Q4 the plan is that Core i7 socket B drops to one percent,
Socket H Lynnfield and Clarkdale to jump to 8 percent and socketless Atom will
get to 9 percent. The rest will be Core 2 Socket T 775, with a market share of 82
percent.
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One percent of all CPUs to be socket H in Q3
Lynnfield or Clarkdale