This is only a short entry. I was reading the notes from endgaget of the Intel Keynote at CES today. In it naturally they refer to the Core Duo, widely expected to be the chip which makes it into Apple’s first Intel computers. About 1/4 way down the article is the quote:
"Core Duo is our first new brand since Pentium. It's about three times smaller than Pentium, about the size of a dime .. it is the world's lowest power dual-core processor. We'll ship the millionth Core Duo in three weeks."
Now, I am not that familiar with how many chips Intel expects to sell each month, but a million of these relatively high end chips available in three weeks suggests some volume customers. People like Dell have only their highest spec laptop shipping with the chip (Inspiron E1705) and I am sure the other big manufacturers are the same. Is this an indication that Apple will be getting quite a number of these chips? They would be a volume customer as it is expected the chip will make it into all the portable line up, the Mac mini and possibly the iMac too.
Anyone with more insight into whether this number could hold any significance please let me know below. I may be way off with this assumption and the number of 1 million chips may in fact serve to discredit ideas of an Intel intro at Macworld. Anyway, 4 days and counting!
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Posted by: iakgscnhkj | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 17:24