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Thursday 30 June 2011
Asustek optimistic about performance in China
Asustek Computer, at a product launch conference in China, pointed out that notebook demand in the China market was weak in the second quarter, but as the IT market will enter the...
Monday 27 June 2011
Asustek to start marketing Atom N435-based Eee PC X101 netbook in July
Asustek Computer will start marketing its low-priced netbook, the Eee PC X101, in July with models running on MeeGo available at US$199 and those running on Windows 7 available at...
Thursday 9 June 2011
Acer places orders for 80,000 Z series APUs from AMD for tablet PCs
Acer has recently placed orders for 80,000 Z series APUs from AMD for use in tablet PCs, targeting the enterprise market, according to sources from upstream component makers. However,...
Thursday 26 May 2011
Intel to offer Cedar Trail CPUs with prices 30-50% less than existing Atom CPUs
Intel is set to announce its latest 32nm-based Cedar Trail platform for netbooks in September with prices of the platform's CPUs to go as low as US$42-47, a drop of 30-50% compared...
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Intel launches Oak Trail-based Atom processor
Intel has announced that the Intel Atom platform, formerly codenamed Oak Trail, is now available and will be in devices starting in May and throughout 2011. Over 35 innovative tablet...
Monday 11 April 2011
Taiwan market: Vendors further drop netbook prices; NT$6,999 models may appear soon
Taiwan-based netbook brand vendors including Asustek Computer and Acer are both dropping their netbook prices to defend from the assault of tablet PCs. Close to 90% of netbook models...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Asustek to launch US$200-250 netbook in June
Asustek Computer is set to launch a new netbook priced at US$200-250 in June in cooperation with Intel, and hopes to achieve its goal of shipping six million netbooks in 2011, according...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Monday 21 February 2011
Taiwan market: Dual-core Atom netbook prices drop to around NT$10,000
Prices for Intel dual-core Atom CPU-based netbooks in Taiwan have recently dropped to around NT$10,000 (US$341) in order to separate the devices from tablet PCs in terms of price,...
Thursday 27 January 2011
Vendors push netbooks into education market
As demand for netbook from the educational market is gradually rising, netbook vendors such as Acer, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have all launched models specifically targeting...
Thursday 20 January 2011
Netbooks to maintain shipments above 30 million in 2011
The netbook market is expected to maintain shipments of about 30 million units in 2011 with the top-three vendors to ship about six million units each, according to sources from notebook...
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Taiwan market: Netbook price dropping to a new low
Strong tablet PC demand continues to impact netbook market and several brand vendors in Taiwan have dropped their netbook price further to attract consumers.
Tuesday 23 November 2010
Intel introduces configurable Atom processor
With the debut of six products based on the Intel Atom processor, Intel is making it easier for customers to go-to-market with differentiated, custom-made designs. The company today...
Monday 15 November 2010
Taiwan market: Dual-core netbooks drop to around NT$10,000
As growth of netbook shipments is still being impacted by sales of tablet PC products, vendors have already dropped the price of their Intel Atom N400 series netbooks to around NT$9,000-10,000...
Sunday 31 October 2010
Netbook shipments of Taiwan-based vendors from 2007-2010
Netbooks are low-cost notebooks with screen sizes below 10-inch mainly designed for Internet usage. Devices adopt either a solid state drive (SSD) or traditional hard drive and typically...