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Demand for Intel Atom processors slowing
Demand for Intel Atom processors slowing
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Monday 27 April 2009] Demand for Intel's Atom netbook processors has begun to slow down as the netbook market faces price-cut competition from low-end notebooks as well as the launch of CULV-based notebooks, according to market sources. ...
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Demand for Intel's Atom CPUs finally beginning to cool?
Engadget — ... came to powering netbooks and nettops, but with the unveiling on NVIDIA's Ion, the promise of a GPGPU (or cGPU) and Intel's own CULV platform, Atom's necessity in the market is becoming less intense. The interesting part here is that Intel is purportedly hawking its inventory to "second-tier and China-based vendors" as it looks to minimize warehouse clutter, which certainly makes us hope for lower-cost low-cost lappies to show up in the near future. Read - Atom demand slowing Read - Intel: PC sales hit rock bottom Filed under: ...

Are PC Makers Shifting Away From Intel's Atom?
Ubergizmo — ... Industry sources from Taiwan indicates that the demand for Intel's Atom processor has been slowing despite the rush to build cheaper computers during the recession. Digitimes offers a few explanations: ...

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