This post is a real indicator to how things are changing, changing very quickly, in the PC/Notebook, netbook, nettop categories of products. I noticed this news item in Feb 2011. In this two short months after that, March and April, tablets came on the scene. The netbook has quickly lost its relevance, in fact even the PC is threatened as a category. Steve Jobs calls it the "post- PC era". Quite likely so!
Anyway, these Atom improvements, Cedarview processors, are coming by the last quarter of this year. Netbook as a category was largely fueled by the Intel Atom. Yet the category is , in all likelihood, going to be wiped out. Intel will have to find a new market segment for it. Tablets may be! The processor will have higher power, to be able to manage playback of Blu-ray video and lower power consumption through the smaller 32 nm process devices.
New Intel Atom Processors for Netbooks and Nettops Due in Fourth Quarter
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