Smartbooks redux: Qualcomm promises ultrathin quad-core laptops
Windows 8 may bring a failed computer category back from the dead: in late 2009, Qualcomm promised that an ARM-based laptop computer called a ” Smartbook ” would change the industry, and today, PCWorld reports that the company is promising ARM-based laptops once again. According to the publication, who spoke with Qualcomm SVP Rob Chandok, the firm is building a special quad-core version of its 28nm Snapdragon S4 specifically for Windows 8 laptops that will be thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air. “We think much lighter than what Intel calls an ultrabook,” Chandok told PCWorld . When we spoke to Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Microsoft at the BUILD conference for Windows 8 last year, all three companies hinted that ARM-based laptops were a possibility ,…
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Smartbooks redux: Qualcomm promises ultrathin quad-core laptops
