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Intel Atom sales have defeated the company’s own expectations and put netbook manufacturers like Asus in a quandary. As Intel finds it difficult to meet the staggering demand for the diminutive Atom, Asus has decided that it is going to use the older Celeron M processors in its lower-end Eee PCs. An unnamed source told PC World that Asus Eee 901, 1000 and 1000H models are going to get top priority when it comes to Atom supplies.
This means that the Asus Eee PC 2G, 4G, 900, 900A, 904HD and 1000HD models are going to feature Celeron M processors. However, it needs to be mentioned that some of the above models already employ Celeron processors. By using the cheaper Celeron M processors Asus also intends to keep costs low. According to PC World, Intel expects to catch up with demand by Q3 2008.
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Strongbad536
August 25, 2008 at 5:31pm
This would be a great market for AMD, because not only are they usually cheaper, but I believe that their processors consume much less power than their intel counterparts. The bad news for AMD is that Penryn is still smoking them and theyre only gonna have more on their plate once Nehalem hits.
Keith E. Whisman
August 25, 2008 at 4:43pm
Well from the benchmark testing at HardOCP.com the Via Nano processor is a faster and more powerful processor. But that is relative because both are just too slow and underperformers. The Celleron for once is a much better processor. Even an underclocked and undervolted Celleron processor will be more powerfull than either processors from Via and Intel. So get your Eee PC on while the better Celleron processors are being used. I would like to see the benchmarks of an Eee PC on Celleron over an Atom processor. Sure the battery life is going to be a little less but the performance will counter that.
mlee19
August 25, 2008 at 3:12pm
Damn, really sounds like a market for AMD if they can produce cheaper, faster chips (they have in the past in the intel P4 days).
