The phenomenon of netbook popularity is differently evaluated . Intel company first feared, that more accessible netbook will hurt the sales of full-scale notebook. Late Intel representatives came to the conclusion that the scales of this assumption are strongly exaggerated.
ARM holdings company greet the growing popularity of netbook. These cheap computers can conquer 90% of market, as consider ARM representatives .
Many analysts concur with the opinion, that the increase rates in netbook sales volumes will begin to slow down already in this year. Associate with the reference to the studies Of strategy analytics, in 2009 were sold 30.2 ml netbook, which to 79% is more than the indices of the previous year. The most important producers of netbook are Acer, Asus, HP and Dell. An increase in this market segment will be continued in 2010, since atom processors are improved, and processors with ARM architecture collect popularity in this application sphere .
If we rest on the data of IDC studies, in the portion of netbook in the past year were about 17-20% of market for mobile computers. Consequently, this computer category is far to the promised BY ARM level of penetration for the market.