Internal target is set pretty high...
Sources at Intel 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.
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