Netbooks Are Still Alive!!

I read this brief piece on Digitimes and thought it was worth passing on:

Acer and Asustek Computer, seeing as most other vendors have quit the netbook market and netbook shipments are becoming more stable, plans to launch new netbook models with Intel's upgraded Atom processors, which are set to appear at the end of the third quarter, according to sources from notebook players.

Intel plans to release upgraded version of Atom N2600 and N2800 at the end of the third quarter and will add new function design to improve performance and in addition to Windows 8-based model, the two vendors also plan to launch Tizen-based netbooks around the same time.

Although the netbook segment is losing demand in mainstream markets, but demand still remains strong in emerging markets and the sources believe that netbook will still be able to maintain a stable shipment proportion in the notebook market.

Currently, Acer and Asustek are able to ship more than 3.5 million netbooks each year.