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Sony and Lenovo bring AMD-based competition for Atom Netbooks

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Prior to the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 (CES) Of 6 until 9 January, reported that Sony the market for Netbooks wants to leave behind. Lenovo has the ThinkPad X120e even announced a subnotebook, which should be similarly small as a netbook, but very powerful.

According to informed circles Sony wants its netbooks with the help of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Brazos processors ship in a market segment with higher prices. These AMD chips contain two processing cores and graphics hardware and to offer solid performance – an improvement over Intel Atom processorsWhich are the de facto standard for netbooks.

"Sony wants out from the netbook market," said an informant. Intel had "a large gap in the market for AMD," left. "In this performance gap fits a truck. AMD can drive there and making their way a lot of sympathy for the PC manufacturers."

The new Sony computer with AMD processors will be priced at about $ 500 (euros 400) are located, so typical of the netbook. "Sony sees itself as a premium brand. In this sense it is meaningful to them," said Bob O’Donnell, analyst at IDC. If Sony wanted to make no comment upon request. As the "ultra portable" 11.6-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X120e with processors AMD Fusion-ESeries to the Sony devices will be unveiled at the CES.

After a Report Engadget has also Toshiba a system based on AMD processors for the CES in stock. This model should not be marketed as a "Netbook". The device is "much more", we hear from the company.

One analyst says that had the appearance of the AMD systems a bad omen for netbook with Atom Chip: "This high-end products could make it to dry out the usual netbook market," said Richard Shim of DisplaySearch. "Customers do have the prices of netbooks like it, but not their performance," added Nathan Brookwood of Insight64.

At Intel, however, there is absolutely convinced that netbooks have not yet had time to atomic basis. "CES attendees get some very cool, super-chic netbooks to see with great battery life. Intel plans to frequently requested, exclusive features such asWireless Displayto integrate ‘(Wireless Image Transfer) in upcoming netbook models. All in all, we are expecting about 100 new netbooks, and TabletComputers in the coming months – in addition to the models that are already on the market, "said Intel spokesman Bill Kircos.

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