14 DAY TRIAL // For all the hype that Intel has been engineering for the Haswell line of central processing units, the collection of CPUs won't account for even a fifth of desktop sales.
Even though Sandy Bridge processors will be phased out by June, and people who would buy Ivy Bridge already have PCs, Haswell won't carve a huge slice of the desktop CPU market as fast as some may have hoped.
Only around 19% of all CPUs sold for normal systems will be based on Haswell micro-architecture.
Obviously, the main reason is that the line will only have half a year to make its mark.
The other major part is the slump in desktop PC demand, which Haswell isn't expected to boost all that much.
Not only that, but entry-level Haswell chips and H81 chipsets will only arrive in the third quarter of the year, further cutting into the selling time.