Super-portable computers Origami: Intel chips removed, using AMD

Another shock for Intel: Samsung Electronics, the US subsidiary, plans to abandon Intel processors - currently being used in the Origami Q1 ultraportable PC line to use AMD chips.

Since launching the Q1 ultraportable tablet for $ 1100 since May, Samsung has witnessed a slow consumption and poor sales of this product.

Changing the chip could help lower costs, making Q1 more suitable for the target market that students, students, health workers and entrepreneurs often have to travel far, sources close to say.

Intel is ashamed, AMD is happy

Source: Mobilemag Currently, Q1 (also known as the Origami code) is running Microsoft Windows on Intel Celeron M chip with ultra low voltage, 900 MHz speed. However, this fall, Samsung may replace the chip with AMD's processor, an article published on Ars Technica site yesterday.

Being pushed out of Q1 could be a big shame for Intel, which is struggling with a brighter financial situation in recent quarters and is losing market share to rival rival AMD. .

Much of the losses come from the server division, where AMD's Opteron chip is storming and outperforming both Intel's Pentium and Itanium chips. The loss of the ultraportable market to AMD may be even worse, because Intel has had great success with the Centrino chip package for notebooks.

All three sides of AMD, Intel and Samsung declined to comment on this information.

Analysts agree

This step will be a good language decision of Samsung, which is a common opinion of all analysts.

" Samsung needs to do everything it can to improve performance for Q1, while reducing product costs ," said Nicole D'Onofrio, a mobile computing expert of Current Analysis. " If you want to find another partner, AMD will emerge as the top candidate, because their Turion 64 chip is extremely competitive compared to Intel ."

Samsung has released Q1 with a massive marketing campaign, in collaboration with Microsoft. According to the advertisement, Microsoft's Origami platform helps Q1 to extend battery life while still running the complete version of Windows XP Tablet PC.

In addition, the Q1 also has a quick on / off feature that allows users to listen to music or watch movies without starting Windows. Samsung's Q1 is the only Origami device on the market today. Taiwan's Asus also plans to launch a similar model named R2H this summer.

Q1 is about the size of a 1.7-inch laptop, with a 40GB hard drive and a 7-inch touch screen.

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