14 DAY TRIAL // Although Intel's Sandy Bridge platform is just around the corner, it would seem that the chip manufacturer is still relying on older (and cheaper) technologies for the bulk of sales, since no less than 65 percent of its desktop CPU shipments are, apparently, still LGA 775.
So, according to Fudzilla, it would seem that, in the last quarter of 2010, most of the CPU shipments (at least in the desktop segment) consist of LGA 775 processors, namely Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Celerons.
From a certain point of view, that seems to be a tad strange, since Intel's been parading its latest-gen Core processors (LGA 1156) all throughout the course of 2010, ever since the new series was released back at CES.
And despite the strong marketing push made by Intel around the Core series, it still only accounts for around 27 percent of the CPU sales.
As far as we're concerned, there's really no mystery as to why LGA 775 products still sell so well, since it's all related to the current status of the economy in most countries all around the world.
So, since consumers are willing to spend less nowadays on hardware components than they used to a few years ago, they're seriously considering the possible uses for the desktop CPUs before opting for a certain architecture, and go for solutions that are more affordable, but mainstream, rather than top-range (mind that we're talking about mainstream consumers here, not the tech savvy, enthusiasts and power user).
Of course, it remains to be seen whether Intel will manage to overturn this trend with the arrival of Sandy Bridge, but it seems that this is the company's plan, the chip manufacturer hoping that Sandy Bridge will take a whopping 60 percent of the desktop CPU market in 2011, with LGA 775 market share dropping to 25 percent in Q3 2011.