14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the LGA 775 socket, which has been around for about six years now, still holds much more than half of Intel's market, so the company hopes Sandy Bridge will finally drive down shipments of such CPUs in 2011.
As it happens, or so say rumors, Intel's LGA 775 socket still accounts for about 65 percent of the company's market, at least as far as the fourth quarter of 2010 is concerned.
For those that are in need of a reminder, the LGA 775 socket is the one used by current Celeron CPUs, as well as Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad chips.
Meanwhile, the Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 chips, plus Pentium units, hold 27 percent, even though the LGA 1156 platform was supposed to be a main representative, of sorts, for Intel's 2010 efforts.
This leaves 2 percent to the LGA1155 platform and the Sandy Bridge central processing units, which haven't exactly started to reach consumers but have shipped to hardware suppliers.
Considering that the LGA 775 socket is getting old, it makes sense that the Santa Clara, California-based company would want its customers to move on to better products, especially when they come at similar prices.
As such, the outfit hopes that Sandy Bridge will actually manage to steal about 60 percent of the entire market, leaving LGA 775 at 25 percent as early as the third quarter of 2011.
This would imply that Sandy Bridge, which will practically replace the current Core series, will secure its aforementioned 27 percent share, while also assuming the larger market share chunk of the Core 2 Duo / Quad and Celeron socket.
Of course, though Intel plans for this to happen, or so says Fudzilla's recent report, but the future is hardly certain so it remains to be seen just how things turn out.