Samsung, Toshiba, Acer and Asus would continue this year, laptops with quadcores on the basis of the ARM architecture wish to release. The price of the notebooks must be lower than 299 dollars. Asus would be a 13″version in the pipeline.
ARM processors are cheap and offer a long life, but earlier attempts, among other Toshiba to so-called smartbooks with ARM chips, were not a success. That Samsung, Toshiba, Acer and Asus now, however, interest would have, according to Digitimes, because the quadcores significant performance improvements result. Also, the interface of Android is now better suited for use on notebooks. Moreover, plays are probably aware that Windows 8 for ARM-based systems coming on; it pays companies to start experimenting with the chips on notebookgebied.
About Asus is the most concrete information available; the company would have with a 13″notebook with Nvidia Tegra 3 quadcore and Android. In addition, at the end of this year a netbook with Tegra 3, and Chrome OS should appear. Finally, Asus is a new version of its Eee Pad Transformer in the planning. This would be at the earliest released in October, and with a Tegra 3 and Android Ice Cream Sandwich equipped.
Asus already has a netbookachtig model with Tegra 2 and Android, though the Transformer only therefore to consider, in combination with the separately available docking station. Asus would be after Apple most tablets sell, claim parts manufacturers, according to Digitimes. The manufacturer from Taiwan would 400.000 Eee Transformers have supplied in the first half of the year.