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Intel Atom processors are seen in an
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BEIJING, Jun.4 (Xinhuanet) -- Intel Corp on Tuesday rolled out its smallest ever processors, the Atom range, betting on an emerging market which it said could be as big as 10 billion U.S. dollars, media reported.
Sean Maloney, General Manager of
Intel's sales and marketing group, showed off the new Atom N270 and Atom 230
processors at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The chips are designed to power
mobile Internet devices (MID), as well as ultra-small PCs, called Netbooks and
Nettops.
Maloney said the market for smaller,
low-cost personal computers, some of which can fit in one's pocket, could be as
big as 10 billion U.S. dollars, driven by demand from emerging and matured
markets.
"It's a 10 billion dollar
opportunity over some period of time," said Maloney.
Intel spokesman Chris Tulley said
the company expects Netbook and Nettop sales to outpace growth of traditional
laptops and desktops.
"We see a lot of demand for more
affordable products," said Tulley. "We see an opportunity to have more devices
per household and potentially one device per person."
Also at Computex on Tuesday, Intel
unveiled new chip sets for desktop PCs. The Intel 4 Series chip sets, which
include the G45, G43, P45 and P43, will be used with the 45nm Intel Core2 Duo
and Intel Core2 Quad processors.
On Sunday, Nvidia launched its new
Tegra 600 and Tegra 650 processors targeted at the same market for
next-generation mobile computers. The move foreshadows a battle between two
types of chip architectures for dominance in the tiny-but-powerful computing
market.
(Agencies)
