14 DAY TRIAL // Apparently, Intel has big plans for its upcoming line of next-generation processors with on-die graphics, to the point where the company's market share is actually expected to be dominated by this line.
The Sandy Bridge line of processors will be composed of many central processing units for the desktop and laptop markets.
They will retain the naming scheme of the current Core series, which means that there will be Sandy Bridge Core i3,Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs.
The first processors to reach OEM stock will be Core i5 and Core i7 models and will begin to be delivered before the end of 2010.
They will only account for 2 percent of the market share, however, as the true changes will begin in the first quarter of 2011.
Core i3 parts will debut, followed by more Core i5 and Core i7, so says a report by Fudzilla.
What this means is that, for the first quarter of next year, Core i7 chips will account for 2 percent of the market share, while i5 and i3 processors will hold 7 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
All in all, following their official introduction at CES, 2010, the new line of chips is expected to account for 20 percent of Intel's total desktop sales.
What's more, if what rumors say is true, that share will only continue rising as the newcomers replace the existing line of microprocessors.
Thus, by the end of next year, the market share of desktop Sandy Bridge CPUs should go as high as 75 percent.
What remains to be seen is what kind of competition sparks between Intel and AMD once the latter brings out its Fusion architecture.
While the CPU cores themselves may or may not rival Intel's, the on-die graphics has long been described as superior, particularly through support for DirectX 11.