ASUS 1215N: A Netbook With Dual Graphics
The new ASUS netbook, namely the 12 1215N model, is one of the most powerful Eee PCs to have appeared thus far. First of all, ASUS has installed Intel's Atom D525, the new dual-core hyperthreading-enabled 1.8 GHz CPU, first presented at this year's Computex fair. D525 is actually the heir to the well-known D510 Atom CPU working at 1.66 GHz, but now also contains both DDR2 and DDR3 memory support.
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Chip sales grow
Semiconductor Industry Association releases the new report, which shows that chip sales grew 37 percent from a year ago to $25.2 billion. But while this would appear to be good news, the monthly gain was just 1.2 percent above June sales of $24.9 billion which indicates that things are starting to slow down. So far this year sales are $169.2 billion, up 46.7 percent from $115.3 billion in the first seven months of 2009. In June, sales were up 47 percent from a year ago.
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Netbooks will keep losing share as tablets arrive
Netbook market share is likely to keep falling over the next few years due in part to tablets, Gartner found yesterday. It noted that the tiny portables not only lost market share in the first two quarters of 2010 but predicted that the category was on a long slide that would drop it to just 10 percent by the end of 2014. Analyst Raphael Vasquez explained that many were simply buying them as cheap notebooks and no longer have interest now that a full-size notebook doesn't cost much more. Researchers didn't give a large amount of credit to the iPad hurting netbook sales as its $499 minimum price has partly put it out of contention, but they acknowledged that cost was likely one of the only factors keeping Apple's tablet from having a deeper impact.
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AutoCAD revived on Mac
After 18-years, AutoCAD will soon be available for Mac OS X. Autodesk last released a native Mac version of its flagship product back in 1992. The Mac was once a popular platform for this type of business, but Apple’s share of the personal computer market dwindled in the early 1990s, so Autodesk made its last version of AutoCAD for the Mac in 1992, and stopped supporting it in 1994. The company, however, continued to make other products for the Mac, including software used in the entertainment industry.
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Intel buys iPhone CPU maker
Intel has purchased part of the large wireless chip maker Infineon Technologies AG, buying the company behind the chips used in the Apple iPhone. The company has fallen far behind in the growing smartphone processor market since their technology uses too much power, draining the phone battery too quickly. With the acquisition for $1.4 billion, Intel now has the wireless-chip division of the company.
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