Asus would plan to use no netbooks to its Eee PC line by disappointing sales and the arrival of Windows 8. Also MSI and Acer would want to stop with netbooks and want to focus on notebooks and tablets.
With the very first Eee PC was Asus, the pioneer in the netbookmarkt, but by the fast growing popularity of tablets and notebooks, such as new ultrabookmodellen, the drafts have come in the sales of netbooks. Also the demand for 10″netbooks in emerging economies in South America and Asia would be disappointing, so reports Digitimes. Then would Asus have decided to make no new Eee PC’s more, and the existing inventories as quickly as possible. Asus would want to focus on its Transformer tablets in the 10″market. Also MSI might want to stop the sales of netbooks, as well as Acer.
In addition to the expanding market for tablets would be the advent of Windows 8 another reason for the demise of the netbook. The licensing costs of Microsoft’s new operating system would be higher than that of Windows 7, while also displays with higher resolutions and touchscreenfunctionaliteit the price of a netbook is strong, would increase.
Now the major manufacturers are their netbookproducten phasing out, there is a risk for Intel is a surplus of cheap Atom processors. The chip maker would be in the fourth quarter to consider a halving of the demand for the Atom N2800 and N260 for netbooks, and the Atom D2500, D2550 and D2700 for nettops.