Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
Hardware, Embedded Systems It seems that after Intel, just about every chip maker wants a piece of the netbook pie. AMD is an obvious competitor, but VIA is also eyeing the little notebooks. However, more exotic options like the Chinese Loongson chips and ARM's Cortex A-8 and A-9 chips are also among the contenders. We can now add a new contender: Freescale.
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Laurence
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2007-03-26

With more and more lower-powered laptops shipping with non-x86 CPUs, Microsoft are going to have to port XP* or lose out

Having said that, it's nice to finally see some competition.

* I can't see Windows Mobile taking off on netbooks.