ASUS and Acer to debut upgraded Atom netbooks in Q3 2012

Posted on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 22:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

DigiTimes heard rumors that both Acer and Asustek will reveal upgraded netbooks with Intel's upcoming Atom processors in Q3 2012:

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.

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