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Atom sales slowing say Taiwanese
THE TAIWANESE gossip mongers have it that demand for Intel's Atom processor is dropping off due to cut-throat competition from low end notebooks and the launch of ultra thin CULVs.
Dodgytimes' sources reckon another reason Atom's sales are tanking in Taiwan is that punters would rather wait for Chipzilla to come out with a new version in a few months, rather than buy the current, soon to be outdated version.
Chinese whispers would have it Intel is now desperately trying to shift its Atom inventory over to second-tier and Chinese vendors, so as not to be left holding the baby (chip).
Intel, however, flatly denies seeing a dramatic drop off in interest for Atom, with spokesman Bill Clader telling the INQ "Atom demand is tracking to plan, we're not seeing any kind of significant slowdown. Netbook sales are continuing to grow as anticipated". µ
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The netBook⢠manufacturers need to switch to something that doesn't cost them an ARM and a leg.
Via would play nice on this market segment. But I was just wondering what happend to VIA anyway. Via is good on Chipsets (remembre the KT133A/266A) and proc. I think that we will hear frm them soon (hopefully).
A good chipset? You must not have had the same KT133As that I had. IDE data corruption, incompatibility with a host of mainstream PCI cards, and several other bugs. Did AMD have anything better? No, but that doesn't mean it was good.
You may want to read up on the Via Nano.
It is reported that GT300 will be named GTX380.
once thought to be 350 part, this is better. Open Gl 3.1 plus bunch of other stuffs, make it powerful, in '9? or basicly '10 thing. wOOOOuu, 2010 still gets Ought or ' for o in 201X, neat, Now thats Real News.
Actually remember Nvidia establish base for Vista Ultimate with Open Gl base for Vista & 6200 card , this should be base expanded into useable territory. Maybe Atom Single core & nvidias favored single core O/S called xp, might be finally behind ALL of US, with NT6 World In Progress. drashek
That's becoz its been tagged with a wrong price. People expected the Atoms are very cheap, as they preform low. But it turns out that, some of the Atom netbooks are tagged with a low-mid range notebook price.
Demand for the older Atom is declining as netbook makers wait for the still-in-short-supply Atom N280.
Netbook manufacturers are in a bind. To ship XP, the CPU can't run faster than 1.66Ghz. Any faster, and they can't use XP for Netbooks. Instead, they have to use Vista, and that would mean competing against far more powerful dual core Vista Notebooks.
Some netbooks have a BIOS switch that allows the user to upclock the CPU to 2.0Ghz, most Atoms will run at those speeds--they were probably designed for those speeds, but had to be underclocked to comply with XPs license restrictions.
The N280 also runs at 1.66Ghz, but uses DDR3 RAM with a faster FrontSideBus. So, this XP 1.66Ghz limit may be helping to increase motherboard bus technology.