Eee PC

Chip manufacturer AMD are set to finally enter the netbook market and attempt to rival the Atom processor with a new addition to their Fusion range. They might be a little slow off the mark but, AMD have confirmed that they will release a DX11 capable CPU/GPU hybrid chip designed for netbooks sometime in 2011. [...]

Intel has just officially announced the newest addition to its Pinetrail Atom family of processors, and as earlier reported, it is to be known as the N470, offering a slightly higher clock speed than usual Atom processors at 1.83GHz by default. It also comes with 512kb of L2 cache and support for DDR2 667 DRAM. [...]

In September, Intel will be holding an event in San Francisco showing off a number on new technologies. One that’ll interest netbook users, is that netbooks will be shown with the N450 CPU. Today’s netbooks with an Intel CPU use either the N270 or N280 which is pretty much just as fast as the upcoming [...]

While the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 was originally launched with Intel’s Atom processor and NVIDIA’s Ion chipset, it is also available with a Via Nano option now through Lenovo’s own web site. The new combination of Via’s Nano ULV 2250 processor and VIA Chrome9 HC3 graphics makes the overall price go down by $50 to $450 [...]

During its presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, mobile phone processor maker ARM announced plans for a new chip called “Sparrow” which could offer a multi core solution to netbooks in the future. According to the company, Sparrow is a small, inexpensive chip that’s based on the same processor chip being used in [...]