IHS iSuppli Analysts have commented on Intel report for the first quarter 2013 , touching upon the development of the PC market. In particular, the diagram below illustrated data on sales of netbooks in the period since 2007, including a forecast for the coming years.
The diagram shows very clearly the success story of his laptops, the dominant platform for which was Intel Atom processors.
The first netbooks appeared in 2007, and then for two years have seen rapid growth. In 2010, it slowed down, and then started declining . At the peak of netbooks popularity over the year were sold more than 30 million units of these devices, while for the current year, analysts predict sales of less than 4 million. This is 72% less than last year, when it sold 14 million netbooks.