The most successful socket of Intel's recent past is the LGA 775 and this socket has accounted for some 79 percent of all Intel desktop CPUs in Q1 2010.

This trend won’t go down by much in Q2 as Intel expects that 72 percent of all CPUs in Q2 will again be socket 775. This platform still has a long life to live for and even in Q3 Intel plans that 66 percent of all CPU to sell to end up in the socket 775 environment. In Q4 2010 the company plans that the socket 775 part of the market will go down to a still predominant 60 percent.

The second most attractive socket is a newcomer, socket 1156 that got introduced in Q4 2009 with Lynnfield and in Q1 2010 with Clarkdale CPUs and in Q1 it already gained 16 percent of the market share. In Q2 2010 the market share of LGA 1156 will jump to 21, in Q3 grows to 26 percent and in the end, in Q4 2010 it will grow to quite impressive 33 percent.

This means that at least 33 + 1 percent will be Nehalem based CPUs which is not so bad after all.

The third most popular socket is the BGA or socket-less Atoms that are being sold directly to OEMs and in Q1, BGA was 5 percent of total market. In Q2 1010 it should grow to six percent and in Q3 and Q4 Intel plans that the growth will stop at 7 percent.

The least popular socket is the good old high-end LGA 1366 for Nehalem parts and this socket simply doesn’t grow at all. The plan is that some one percent will be the part of the market for these CPUs and it wont change for whole 2010, in all four quarters.

This is what Intel anticipates trough the 2010 and the plan can slightly deviate.