Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
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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2008-10-23
But now, it's the right time to do it. There are enough open source software to support a netbook. Intel tried and failed at another time. Maybe if there is actually a netbook that is not x86-compatible and that it sells well (gdium?), maybe some software vendors will start to think portable again. That could get us out of this mess. The computing world could inovate again... x86 is not cheap and it's not fast, it is just the only thing we know.
Edited 2009-01-06 14:55 UTC