During the year 2009, we experienced what some would call the "netbook boom" wherein sales of these small devices which we here at Eee PC blog all know and love have skyrocketed. I personally believe sales of netbooks would only continue to rise as they get even more powerful, more portable, and more enjoyable in the future. But even now, it is obvious to anyone (even those who do not follow the netbook scene) that netbooks are showing up nearly everywhere.
A lot of companies are making big bucks with sales of netbooks. So it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that Intel, the one who supplies the Atom processors being used in most netbooks nowadays, are also seeing sales of this particular processor go through the roof and taking up a huge percentage of their sales.
However, as it turns out, Intel's Atom socket only accounts for 5% of their overall sales, with the recently introduced LGA 1156 socket overtaking it for second place with 18% and LGA 775 still reigning as top dog with 77% of overall sales. Intel's high-end LGA 1136 socket takes up only 1% of sales which me ans that it is behind the Atom socket at least in this respect.
Intel projects that by the end of this year, Atom socket sales would rise to 7%.
Via Fudzilla
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Intel's LGA 775 socket account for 77% sales overall, Atom left with only 5%
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