Samsung breaking Intel’s rules with their new netbook
It seems that Samsung is going all wild and daring with their upcoming netbook offering. It’s going to be Nvidia Ion platform based, with an Intel Atom N-series CPU and an 11.6-inch display.
By having the screen be that size, Samsung breaks Intel’s restrictions on netbook panel size, which maintains that they must be 10.2-inches or smaller. The rebels. Lenovo also broke the rules when they launched their 12-inch Intel Atom N270-based netbook last month. Lenovo also used the Nvidia Ion graphics chipset.
As a slap on the hand for breaking the rules, Intel has canceled the vendors’ preferential pricing for the Intel Atom N270 CPUs, sources revealed. Intel would not comment on the situation, citing “customer confidentiality,” but they did say that “it has long been pro-competitive.”
Hmmm…now is Intel actual doing all this punishing because of screen size or because of the whole competition to Intel’s own low-power graphic chipset that is sometimes used in netbooks, and here the Nvidia Ion was used instead in these machines?
Come on, it’s a netbook. It’s a difference of not even an inch and a half in Samsung’s case. Let’s find bigger things to argue about, kids.
Read: [digitimes]
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