According to the figures presented by the company, currently only 9% of notebooks sold are equipped with quad-core chips, but in four years they will grab nearly half the market. Until then, computers with six-core processors - like the current Core i7, Intel - are expected to show up in 18% of the machines.
"For years the industry focus was winning performance with more and more mega-hertz and giga-hertz, but now the battle will be in the field of the nuclei of the amount of chips," says Matthew Wilkins, an analyst at the company responsible for study.
While Intel and AMD already have their own mobile quad-core processors ready on their shelves, the study asserts that they should evolve much until ingratiate themselves with the public. According to the forecast, by 2015 no less than 90% of computers have for sale APU technologies in a single chip that is responsible for processing video and data. "These chips are expected to offer superior performance by consuming smaller amounts of power," concludes the study.
