… that Intel sees in the Atom in 60 million device units that cost between $100 and $299 by 2011?… the chip-maker expects another 47 million Atom-powered devices in the $299 to $399 price over the same time period?…. these sales figures could become a reality because the starting price for the second generation Atom CPU in bulk orders is expected to be only $44. That number will likely continue to drop over time….. that 25 Atom-powered notebooks will be available by mid-year, 2008? That’s just a few short months away…. that the target screen size for these notebooks is between 7- and 10-inches?The Atom might not provide me what I’m looking for under the hood of a portable desktop replacement (or it might, we’ll have to wait and see), but there’s no doubt in my mind that this push by Intel is no small task at the bottom of a checklist. This is clearly a major initiative in the mobile space. Bigger than I first thought and more than the news out of CeBIT would leave me to believe. Let’s check in at the end of 2008 on this and see how Intel did.
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