Category: other notebook news
By: Raghav Kapoor
AMD and VIA processors getting popular amongst Chinese netbook manufacturers
Intel to face tough competition
The netbook market has for long been dominated by Intel’s Atom N270 and Atom N280 processors. This is because Intel has made a brand name for itself. It occupies the largest market share in terms of notebook processors, the only formidable foe being AMD. AMD has not yet launched a processor built specifically for netbooks, whereas, Intel had released the Atom processor long ago. Intel had foreseen that the netbook category has the potential to grow big and hence it launched the Atom processor which is dedicated for netbooks only. This helped Intel to increase its market share in the netbook segment.
According to a report by Digitimes, this trend will soon change because Chinese white box netbook manufacturers are reportedly starting to build mini-laptops equipped with VIA and AMD processors as an alternative to the Intel Atom-powered netbooks. The reason for this shift is that there is an increase on demand of VIA and AMD based netbooks. Moreover, VIA processors cost half as much as Intel Atom processors. Intel has also placed a limit on the screen size of netbooks running on the Atom processor. This restricts manufacturers from experimenting with different screen sizes.
As a result Chinese manufacturers have shifted from Atom based netbooks to AMD and VIA based netbooks with screen sizes greater than 12-inches. Although, the Chinese manufacturers are developing netbooks with screen size greater than 12-inches, the point remains, whether these low power processors will be able to power these high resolution displays. We will have to wait to have a glimpse of these netbooks.
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