In the latter several months expert report about reduction in the sales volumes of netbook This market segment, which entered the stage of maturity, reaches saturation, and new threat for it are the collecting popularity plane-table computers. In the opinion of some analysts, plane-table computers get s30-40% of netbook buyers.
Intel company, at the last quarterly current conference stated about an increase in the gain from the realization of atom processors to 16% in comparison with the previous block. Moreover, the company leaders reported the output of 75- millionth copy atom from2008. According to Intel forecasts, in this year will be throughout the world sold about 40 ml. netbook. Computer market as a whole in the year will grow approximately by 20%.
Intel leaders place Plane-table computers in the category of additional devices, they cannot threaten full-scale computers or notebook.
In Computex 2010 producers showed more than 30 models of plane-table computers on base of atom processors. In this segment, they give the possibility to select among the program platforms: Windows, Android, Chrome, MeeGo and Linux.
Moreover, at the end of this and the beginning of following year on the market will appear a large quantity of built in electronics on base of atom processors: television prefixes, DVD- players, television and so on. Demand for atom processors will continue to grow at least for this reason.