Small is big at Intel Developer Forum
The three-day event gives the world’s largest chipmaker a chance to commune with the brainiacs who design desktop and laptop computers, along with an emerging genre of PCs that are bigger than cell phones but smaller than laptops.
Intel favors the label “mobile Internet device” for this new family of smaller PCs, such as the Asus Eee. Designed and built in Taiwan, this lightweight computer includes most features but is smaller than a notebook - so don’t expect to edit video.
Intel hopes this forum will create a buzz around its new Atom microprocessor, aimed at what it hopes will be a burgeoning market for these purse- and-pocket-sized computers.
Behind the name game looms a technological and financial battle as ever-more-powerful Internet-ready cell phones like the iPhone start to collide in function with the ever-shrinking mobile PC - giving the browsing public more ways to turn on, plug in and Web out.
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