Acer working on Snapdragon powered laptop

MWC 2009: Qualcomm confirms company is working on new model

Acer working on Snapdragon powered laptop
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16 February 2009 8:59 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Acer will launch a Snapdragon powered laptop in the near future Pocket-lint has learned.

The move, which will see the new Qualcomm processor currently found in the Toshiba TG01 make a move into laptops, has been confirmed by Qualcomm's senior vice president for Europe Enrico Salvatori.

"We are working with Acer on a device of that nature", Salvatori said when pressed on which companies would be using the new chipset in a laptop.

Qualcomm hopes its Snapdragon chipsets will allow it to offer a more vital competitor in mini-laptops as it takes on PC processor makers Intel, AMD and Via.

The Qualcomm chipsets come with 1GHz Arm processing cores and Qualcomm technology to connect mini-laptops and other gadgets to 3G mobile phone networks.

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  • While ARM Holding is going up and Intel Corporation is moving down, I therefore have no doubt who will end up being a clear winner in the race to become no.1 micro chip producer in the years to come.
    ARM with it ARM7 and ARM9 processor can easily take on Intel Atom for many reasons, firstly ARM7 and ARM9 consume less power and have longer standby times the Intel Atom processor. Secondly the ARM7 and ARM9 is much smaller in size then the Intel Atom, this will reduce cost for hardware vendors.

    ARM Holding to date powers more then 95% of the smart phones, such as Nokia N7 Mini , iPhone, Blackberry and host of other communication devices such as TV Music player and set-top boxes.

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    http://www.payasyougomobilephones.mobi     Posted by Kamal Hussain, England

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