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The promising Intel price policy with respect to four core processors is clear -, in the third quarter this year it will be possible to purchase processor with four core for $266. Meanwhile in the present year the rates of core 2 Quad expansion in the market is moderate - to the end of 2007 , processors with four core will occupy in Intel production not more than 6-8%.
AMD Processors with four core will not became mass in the near future . portion of four core generation k10 will be also modest. in addition AMD generally consider that to desktop processor it s sufficient to have not more than three-four cores;
Analysts forecast, that to the end of 2009 each second computer with cost $500-1000 will be based on processor with four core.
The portion of computers with cost more than $1000 now composes 6% of sales total volume . Computers with cost $500-1000 at present compose 42%, and the portion of budget computers cost $300-500 is 52% . Naturally, this distribution will differ in various regions : in the developing countries the portion of budget computers is much higher.
To the end of 2009 four core processor will be installed in 11% of notebook with cost $750-2200. In the first quarter of 2009 they will present in only 4% of those notebook with this price class. It is assumed that Intel will present the first four core processor for notebook in 2008.
After Penryn Intel company will present processors generations nehalem, which can virtually increase the core number by two times with the aid of technology, which resembles to Hyper-Threading. Related Products :
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