Intel wants to flog a million Lynnfields
SOURCES at Chipzilla have revealed that Intel has a goal to ship more than a million Lynnfield Core i5 and i7 CPUs for desktops by Christmas.
Asustek and Gigabyte have been told that they should look forward to shipping 400,000 P55-based motherboards each. Meanwhile Micro-Star, Elitegroup and ASRock all together are expected to build another 200,000 units.
Digitimes spoke with Joe Hsieh, vice president of Asustek's motherboard business unit product marketing department, who told it that P55-based boards will account for 10 per cent of the Taiwanese company's annual motherboard shipments.
He was hoping to flog six million motherboards during that period so the Intel sources' comments seem to be about right.
Some of that might be due to the push for new Windows 7 machines although Hsieh thinks enterprises are unlikely to replace their PCs just yet. Consumers on the other hand should be falling all over themselves to get new machines this Christmas, or so the PC manufacturers are hoping. µ
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well they had better stop charging an immense ripoff price for them! after all, consumers have lots of disposable income at the moment(!) (...not)
i think all businesses would like to shift millions of units but actually achieving it is another matter
maybe they could achieve it by paying retailers to not stock competitors products? but surely intel does not do this?(!)
Intel products will benefits both the consumers and the customers and prevent them from inferior products. Intel is always right with its business practices and conducts. Intel acknowledges AMD products is rubbish and it is appropriates for it to be placed in the trash like Justin Ratner had done in IDF 2006.
Intel & their business customers can wish all they like for christmas,sounds like they are run by nerds.
My advice to customers is, keep your money in your pockets & when they realise they got it wrong in the spring,prices will drop like a stone.
Customers in the know, are NOT going to invest money in hardware,when they know that M$'s next OS after W7,won't work on it.
I'm glad to see Intel is so excited about windows 7 rollout and I hope you all the best in spreading this contagious enthusiasm to consumers and businesses wearing gas masks and radiation suits.
That's a great goal, but I'll just wait until they put their money where their mouth is and drop the prices for the Win 7 launch.