The low-cost notebook or netbook market helped increase Intel's and Via's share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of 2008, says a study by Mercury Research. The demand for low-cost laptops also increased as HP, Lenovo, Acer and Asus brought new netbooks to the market. At the same time Intel and Via saw their share of the chip market increase, AMD's processor share slipped. - The low-cost notebook market helped Intel and Via Technologies increase
their share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of
2008, while Advanced Micro Devices' share slipped, according to an Aug. 7 report
from Mercury
Research.
While mainstream notebooks have been dr...
