Acer and ASUS leave the netbook market

Following Dell, the netbook market decided to leave ASUS and Acer . According to DigiTimes, the supply of Intel Atom N2800 and N2600 processors for netbooks, as well as the Atom D2700, D2500 and D2550 for nettops in the fourth quarter will be reduced by 50 percent, so Intel should revise its plans for Atom chips.

The refusal of the Eee PC netbook lineup was confirmed by ASUS CEO Jerry Shen (Jerry Shen), fully hoping for Transformer tablets, which are as good as netbooks with a connected keyboard. The difference in the cost of Transformer tablets and netbooks Eee PC, Mr. Shen probably did not consider.

Acer has not officially "renounced" netbooks, but is not going to release new models, which may indicate its intention to leave the market in the near future. MSI is also skeptical and most likely the days of its products based on Atom N2800 processors are numbered.

Source: Digitimes.com

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