Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Nov 2008 12:42 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Netbooks are still all the rage these days, but according to Intel, this is going to change soon. The company has stated that they first thought that netbooks, who are almost exclusively powered by Intel chips, would be for emerging markets, but as it turns out, they are especially popular in Europe and North America. Intel claims that while these devices are "fine for an hour", they are not something for day to day use. And AMD? They are ignoring the market altogether.
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RE[4]: Loongson
by gustl on Mon 1st Dec 2008 14:28 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Loongson"
gustl
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The netbooks will to to the notebooks what the x86 PC did to the SGI IRIX workstations.

They will be increasing in calculation power while staying low on price and power consumption.
It will take its time, but the netbooks will continuously eat into the lower end notebook market.

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