Intel Target 5% Consumer Market With Single-Core Atom By Year End

Intel are aiming to take between three and five percent of OEM consumer sales with their Atom processor before the end of the year, but business use for the single-core version of the CPU is still seen as unlikely.  According to Fudzilla, the silicon company intend to ratchet up their Atom market share to 3-percent in Q3 2008 and 5-percent in Q4, before keeping that stable in the first half of 2009.

Currently the Celeron 400-series is marketed at both consumer and business segments, and is 7-percent of Intel's total output.  The company expects that to remain constant up until Q2 2009, during which it will drop a point to 6-percent.

It's possible that the upcoming dual-core Atom 330-series will begin to take over some of the applications the Celeron 400 currently occupies.  It is estimated for launch in Q4 2008.