Despite all of the consumer-centric hoopla surrounding CES, January is actually a difficult time to introduce products for PC makers, according to this person. "A little a bit of that [delay in introducing dual-core systems] is allowing OEMs to shift inventories of the older products that they have," the source said. "CES frankly is a very bad time [to introduce products] for OEMs. Because they've now built up all of their systems for holiday and now you have new product coming out in January that has to replace the old stuff and it's not an easy transition for OEMs to manage."
Most of the quad-core systems will be 15-inch and 17-inch designs, according to the source.
First Intel Sandy Bridge laptops will be quad-core
Posted on Thursday, December 16 2010 @ 13:49 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck