Some manufacturers statements about the prospects of ultrabook market are illusions. For example, it is difficult to believe that in a couple of years, the value of hyperfine notebook-based on solid state drive will drop to $ 499, and after five years, all the mobile computers with the physical keyboard will have a similar mass-dimensional characteristics.
Assocaite reported on a new Intel initiative , designed to attract small players to ultrabook manufacturing. In particular, we deal with Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic, Mustek, Motion Computing, WiPro and Positivo. Large manufacturers have the advantage of allowing economies scale.
Large manufacturers are already preparing ultrabooks based on 22 nm processor generation Ivy Bridge. They may be on sale at the end of the second quarter 2012. Intel is working with components suppliers, because many of the ultrabook components are specific.