Freescale Chases $199 Netbook With New Processor

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pcworld.com - 1/5/2009

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Freescale on Monday is expected to announce a new processor for netbooks that may challenge chip maker Intel on price in the low-cost computing space. The company's i.MX515 processor will run on netbooks, low-cost laptops that are designed to perform basic computing functions like accessing the ...

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jkOnTheRun: Freescale Tries to Undercut Intel Atom Netbooks at $199

HardMac.com: Freescale: Comeback in the Electronic Consumer Market

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Freescale Tries to Undercut Intel Atom Netbooks at $199
jkOnTheRun — ... We’ve argued for some time that one of the broad appeals of a netbook is the low price for what you can do with such a device. Most netbooks range in the $300 to $500 area and the vast majority of these capable little notebooks are powered by Intel’s Atom. Freescale figures that their i.MX515 ARM processor can also meet most computing needs, but at a lower cost. The company plans to power a $199 netbook by the end of 2009 and will be showing just such a device made by Pegatron at CES this week. ...

Freescale: Comeback in the Electronic Consumer Market
HardMac.com — According to a report from PC World, Freescale, the now independent former Motorola Processor Division, is aiming to offer CPU dedicated to netbook devices. After writing the brightest and darkest period of the Power PC era with Apple, Freescale is now back to the electronic consumer market with ARM architecture-based CPU. With a combination of low power consumption/low price/ mid-range performance, Freescale i.MX515 might seduce manufacturers of those small netbook devices requiring more connectivity than real CPU crunching power. ...