Santa Clara (ip-192.com): To beef up processing power, netbooks from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba ship now with a new Dual-core Intel Atom processor. The new chip provides a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor and DDR3 memory support.
"In their short history, the netbook category has experienced impressive growth," said Erik Reid, director of marketing for mobile platforms at Intel. "Having shipped about 70 million Intel Atom chips for netbooks since our launch of the category in 2008, there is obviously a great market for these devices around the world."
Netbooks based on the dual-core Intel Atom N550 will allow users to play games and use Adobe Flash to access more Web pages including online hotel booking systems and multimedia sites such as YouTube and Hulu. Intel says that the N550 will yield battery life similar to the single-core Intel Atom processor N450.
Netbooks are usually low-cost (compared to laptops) PC’s with smalls screens (10 inch plus) and keyboards. They are primarily designed to allow users to surf the Internet and run basic applications. While very popular, they have been criticized for week graphics and slow performance.
AMD plans to ship an Atom competitor code-named Ontario in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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