Posted on Wednesday, April 08 2009 @ 0:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs
told the press at the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas this week that netbooks may soon outsell notebooks. Jacobs predicts sales of netbooks will rise relatively quickly:
Move over, notebooks. Netbooks may soon become the personal computer of choice for millions of end users, according Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs. In a Bloomberg interview at the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, Jacobs predicted the netbook’s rise could happen “relatively quickly,” although he declined to give a specific timeline.
Qualcomm has a vested interest in the netbook’s success. Its upcoming Snapdragon line of processors, designed for netbooks and other ultraportable devices, will debut in consumer devices later this year. Snapdragon will challenge Intel’s Atom chip, which currently dominates the netbook market and is slated to appear in other mobile Internet devices as well.
