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And I’m going to say it one more time, the UMPC market will be dominated by VIA soon and it will keep that leadership for at least a year or even more. All depend of how long will take Intel to design something with enough power to run Vista decently in  UMPCs and still getting a good battery life. But so far… it seems to me that Intel is too busy fighting for  the MID market.

With Hewlett-Packard (HP) said to have ordered 100,000 C7-M ULV processors for its initial mini-note low-cost PC launch, (which is expected to reach 500,000 units in total in 2008) while Gigabyte Technology’s new M700 series UMPC (ultra mobile PC) will also adopt VIA Technologies’ CPUs, the Taiwan-based chipmaker may have a chance of recover from its long series of losses, according to industry watchers.

VIA CPUs to stage comeback in low-cost PC market

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Working as IT Professional since 1994. IT Manager since 1999. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Tablet PC/UMPC since 2007. Owner/writer of www.ultramobilepc-tips.com . Published many articles in todoUMPC Magazine, www.todoUMPCmagazine.com, the first online magazine all about UMPCs. Maker of Tweaks2K2, a registry hacking tool for Pocket PC devices (www.tweaks2k2.com).