According to Intel, the netbook at the end of its life as a category. The revenue from this category amounted to only a few millions of dollars. The company does this to small laptops with Bay Trail chips are not as a netbook.
Intel notes that the profits from the sales of netbooks, small laptops with Atom processors, greatly reduced in recent years. “Netbooks are coming to the end of their life as a category. The sales of netbooks is still several millions of dollars. A year ago, sales were still robust and were very profitable products,” said Stacy Smith, chief financial officer of Intel, during the publication of the quarterly figures.
The communication makes it clear that Intel makes small, cheap laptops with Bay Trail-soc’s not as a netbook looks, while others that do as netbook would be labelled. Bay Trail is the fuel-efficient soc platform of the group, as the successor of the previous Atom generation can be seen, although there are also Celerons and Pentiums based on Bay Trail will appear. The new small laptops with Bay Trail are all models with touch screens. “There are fifty systems with Bay Trail coming up, about twenty of them are 2-in-1 models,” said Intel ceo Brian Krzanich about it.
In practice, the netbook such as Intel, which defines with an Atom processor of the previous generation already times to the end of his rope. Almost all manufacturers are this year or already have been stopped with the release of new cheap little laptops with Atom processors of the previous generation. One reason that Intel is now so clearly says that netbooks at the end of their life, can agree to make the term netbook a negative charge has been given by the slow performance and cheap feel of many netbooks.
Perhaps the most famous series netbooks: the Asus Eee PC