AMD: No Atom-beating Low-Voltage Chip For Netbooks

Bit-tech quotes comments made by AMD’s chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau this week by eWeek, that there are no chances for an Atom-beating low-voltage chip to come from AMD.
According to those sources Nigel Dessau AMD isn’t looking to compete in the low-cost ‘netbook’ market. Furthermore Dessau is quoted by eWeek as saying that the company [...]

ECS: 3G-enabled G10IL Netbook Fighting MSI’s Wind In September

ECS is going to take part in the US netbook battle with their 3G-enabled G10IL Netbook. The term ‘netbook’ was initially coined by Intel for describing potential small, low-cost systems with roughly enough power to only surf the net, powered by Intel’s ATOM CPU. Formerly named UMPC (ultra mobile PC) and MID (mobile internet device) [...]

Gigabyte Netbook M912V: 8.9” Touch Swivel Panel And Atom CPU

After rumors for a long time, especially at this years Computex show, Gigabyte has finally released this month the thin and light Netbook-M912V, listed currently at 699 U.S. dollars.
The M912V netbook has a 8.9 inches rotating touch screen with a resolution of 1280 x768 pixels, including a 1.6 GHz Atom processor, a 945 GSE chipset, [...]

Centrino Atom Platform: PC Vendors Pessimistic

Digitimes reports, that although Intel is aggressively pushing Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and its Centrino Atom platform, PC vendors still feel pessimistic about the market’s future in general. Digitimes calls an increasing demand for 7- to 10-inch netbooks, a declining worldwide economy and Nvidia’s ARM11-based Tegra as negative factors toward MIDs. Intel declined the opportunity [...]

EEE 901: Asus to charge the same for Linux and Windows

Computerworlduk.com writes that Asus will charge the same for Linux and Windows on the new Eee PC
901. Though the Linux option brings 8 GB more storage space. The Windows version comes with 4 GB internal memory and 8 GB flash, the Linux UMPC gets 16 GB flash inside.
Additionally the Eee PC 901 will come with [...]

Computex 2008: Intel’s Atom is everywhere

Without any doubt: Intel’s Atom is a dominating factor at Computex 2008. More or less all motherboard manufacturers have at least a mini-ITX model based on the Atom to show. The Wind PC from MSI is ardently awaited amongst fans of the UMPC and MID mini-PCs.
Like Behardware.com is describing the ATOM hype: “… This platform [...]

Intel Atom: Offered On $80 Mobo

Intel has released a mini-ITX motherboard incorporating its new Atom 230 CPU and selling for around $80. Likely bound for a variety of “nettops” and other devices, the D945GCLF has serial, parallel, and IDE interfaces, six USB ports, 10/100 Ethernet, and HD audio, says Intel. Understandably, the economical D945GCLF is a textbook example of what [...]

“Netbook” uses Intel’s Atom N270

Some more infos on windowsfordevices.com about Acer’s new netbook Aspire one, including specifications. The Aspire One offers Windows XP Home, 512MB or 1GB of RAM, 8GB flash, an 8.9-inch, 1024 x 600 display, WiFi, a webcam, and an optional 80GB hard drive. The Aspire One is among over two dozen notebooks, netbooks, and MIDs (mobile [...]

Computex 2008: Intels Atom Rules And Taiwan’s Tiger Roars

Ricky Morris from Digitimes writes that Intel’s Atom-based notebooks (netbooks) and desktops (nettops) have opportunities in emerging markets as affordable devices for first-time PC users. For mature markets those devices are seen as an opportunity as a cheap PC for children … also 90% of the Atom-based devices currently announced are designed by Taiwan-based companies. [...]

Atom-based Eee PC to launch next week for $650

Taipei (Taiwan) – TG Daily got its hands on Asus’ latest entry-level notebook, the Intel Atom-based EeePC 901. We were left with mixed feelings after seeing and playing with the device for a while. The processing and graphics capability is entry-level without any doubt, while the Eee PC 901’s price has arrived deep in mainstream [...]