Intel
Centrino 2 Launch
Centrino 2 Launch - Laptop sales to outpace desktops by 2009
Sales of laptop computers will soon outpace global sales of desktop computers due to high demand from a more mobile workforce, a top regional executive of Intel Corporation said Friday.
Debjani Ghosh, sales and marketing director of Intel South East Asia, said notebook computer sales grew at a slow pace from 21 percent of global computer sales in 2001 to 22 percent a year later.
She said advancements in technology, including the launch of the Intel Centrino 1 microprocessor technology in 2003, led to a rise of laptop sales from 25 percent in 2003 to 41 percent in 2007.
She said she expects notebook sales to increase to 48 percent this year and go up to 53 percent next year, outpacing desktop sales. By 2011, laptop sales will increase even further to 59 percent of total computer sales, Ghosh said.
Atom 2 Launch
Intel officially launches Atom in the Philippines
In the fast-changing world of technology, everything is getting smaller. From desktop computers to laptops, from laptops to notebooks, from notebooks to netbooks.
Netbooks (ultraportable subnotebooks), along with nettops (mini desktop PCs), are compact mobile devices that everyone desires to have because it is smaller, lighter and simpler to use. Coined by Intel in 2007, this new category of simple, affordable devices is solely meant for networked data consumption.
Besides basic computing applications and simple multimedia functions (music and video playback), netbooks are also powerful enough to provide online games, social networking, e-mail, and even voice over IP calls—basically, things people do on the Internet.
