ARM expects its chips in half of 2011 tablet PCs

Posted on Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 17:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

ARM expects its chips will be used by 50 percent of the global tablet PCs in 2011, according to company director of Mobile Computing, Bob Morris.

Morris expects global tablet PC shipments to total four million units in 2010 and the volume will rise to 21 million units in 2011, with close to 40 ARM-based tablet PC models to appear in the channel.

PC vendors including Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Sharp have all already adopted ARM-based processors for their smartbook and tablet PC products, Morris noted.

Source: DigiTimes

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