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Samsung to Surpass ASUS and HP's Netbook Shipments in 3Q09

The netbook phenomenon has certainly been good to a number of industry players, helping major companies lower their losses when demand was down, while enabling others to debut on the market for portable computer systems. On that note, it appears that Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of con...

16 September 2009
06:14 GMT

Intel Thinks Netbooks No Longer Appeal to First-Time Buyers

Santa Clara, California-based Intel said on Wednesday that it no longer expected the netbook computer system to appeal to first-time PC buyers. However, the company stated that it saw continued sales of the ultraportable form factor as PC users were still looking for a secondary machine or a durable option for kids. ...

30 July 2009
03:29 GMT

Intel Claims Netbooks Are Not for Grownups

Despite the impressive and growing success of the Atom processor, Santa Clara, California-based chip maker Intel isn't particularly fond of the way things are evolving in the market for small-sized, low-power computer systems, such as netbooks and nettops. The main reason for that is the low price tag of this pr...

9 April 2009
05:34 GMT

Microsoft Claims Supremacy in Netbook Market, Windows on 96% of Netbooks

The impressive growth of the netbook market has certainly benefited a considerable number of companies, including big names such as PC vendors Acer, ASUS, Dell or HP, as well as Intel, which currently provides the hardware technology for most netbooks on the market. However, in the buzz of it all, another major compa...

7 April 2009
04:30 GMT

Acer Expects Netbook Market to Reach 30 Million Units in 2009

With the global market for small-sized, lightweight portable computer systems continuing to grow, leading netbook maker Acer is expecting that the market will reach 25-30 million units this year, while in 2010, shipments of 40-45 million units are estimated, according to a recent news-article published on Digitimes, ...

18 February 2009
07:58 GMT

ARM Heading for the Netbook Market with the New Sparrow Chip

Chip maker ARM announced yesterday its first Cortex family processor core built using a 32nm manufacturing technology. Following that announcement, the company has recently introduced a new, low-cost processor, dubbed “Sparrow,” which it claims to be aimed at the increasingly popular netbook market. The n...

17 February 2009
04:21 GMT

Acer's Aspire One, Still the Most Popular Netbook on the Market

Acer can still pride itself as having developed the most popular netbook system on the market, according to a recent study made by PriceGrabber.com. The Aspire One netbook has managed to take the first place in the Top 10 netbooks on PriceGrabber.com, having managed to considerably outpace ASUS' Eee PC netbook, ...

28 January 2009
05:02 GMT

AMD Sees No Future for Netbooks

According to some recent statements made in the media by both Intel's and AMD's chief executive officers, the new netbook PC category, which has considerably impacted the market in 2008, is going to go through some changes in the near future, in the sense that netbooks are not going to be all that distinct ...

26 January 2009
04:12 GMT

AMD to Release Atom Rival in November

It seems that AMD is finally determined to make a move against Intel's Atom processor. While the chip giant is said to release the first dual-core Atom sometime in October, the Sunnyvale company decided to make available as of November 65 nm Athlon microprocessors that would target the same market area as Intel&...

11 September 2008
03:17 GMT

Intel's Atom Processor to Face Limited Supply

Since the beginning, this year has been greatly marked by news regarding Intel's Atom processor, a product the chip manufacturer sees in many of the Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) that will allow people to interact with each other in the future. The company wants to extend the use of the Atom processors from han...

1 September 2008
04:31 GMT


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