Eee PC

Intel is set to increase its lead over its competitors despite a fall in sales of its Atom chips intended for the moribund netbook business, Intel Corp in the Q3 managed to widen its control position in the international microprocessor market on the muscle of its corporate sales.   Intel in the Q3 made about [...]

Even with the down economy of most countries, netbooks are still soaring with a 103% growth in terms of shipments compared to the previous year. It seems that people who need computers tend to buy netbooks, which is no surprise. They’re a lot cheaper than notebooks and most consumers aren’t looking for power but something [...]

HP experienced a 9% profit decline during this year’s first quarter, but the company clarifies that it wasn’t due to netbooks cannibalizing sales of their traditional notebook computers. Instead, HP CEO Mark Hurd blamed the global economic recession as one of the main culprits, as well as the broadening of available products that the company [...]

Recently, Asus and NTT Docomo of Japan has started negotiating on a possible cooperative agreement that will see the Asus Eee PC netbooks getting bundled with NTT Docomo’s various Internet data plan. Asus is currently getting around 85% of its product sales from the Japanese market and the company is aiming to get 70% of [...]