ARM to enter netbook fray

Intel has been coasting along fat and happy in the current netbook craze, pumping out as many Atom processors as they can.  It’s not been enough though given their recent financial picture and things may get a bit rockier for the chipmaker as rival ARM has told Laptop Magazine they intend to enter the netbook market.  ARM processors have long been used in smartphones and PDAs so the netbook segment is not that big a stretch for them.  They plan to have a version of Ubuntu optimized to work with their chips and hit the market next year.

ARM chips are very low power consumers so we could see a netbook with a near all-day battery life which just might get some folks excited.  We’ll have to wait and see how much an ARM-based netbook would cost compared to Intel powered ones as current netbook prices are already about as low as they can go and maintain full computing capabilites.

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