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Posted by Will Smith
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 05:26 |
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WTF?! ... Is this for real? Intel selling them cheaper than existing ATOMs? If this is the case ... then the tablet war is notched up a gear. ARM, QUALCOMM, INTEL, NVIDIA and AMD are all fighting for a piece of the action. Let's see what happens.
"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 to the price of existing Atom N4xx and N5xx series CPUs at US$64-86, according to sources from netbook players.
Facing competition from tablet PCs, most netbook vendors have turned their R&D focus to tablet PCs, while shifting their netbook sales targets to emerging markets such as Brazil and India. With Intel offering an attractive quote for its Cedar Trail platform, the sources estimated that Cedar Trail-based netbooks will have an ASP of US$199-299, allowing netbooks to have advantage in price."
Source: Digitimes
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