An explosion in the market for plane-table computers must bring ARM holdings company benefits, since many producers in this segment give preference to ARM architecture. Even computers Taiwan producers, who showed on exhibition computex 2010 prototypes of plane-table devices on base of x86- compatible architecture processors and operating system Windows, plan in parallel to release plane-table computers on base of processors with ARM architecture.
ARM holdings company, which recently made statements of intention to conquer half of market for mobile devices to 2014, in an interview acknowledged that to judge the success of plane-table computers based on the example Of apple iPad is too early. The market for plane-table devices is only formed, producer experiment with processor architectures, the form factors and operating systems.
Possibly, the caution of forecasts of ARM chapter on the market for plane-table computers is caused by the low start of smart book sales, which unite the advantages of netbook and processors with ARM- architecture.