Manage updates with the Download AppAnalyst: 'big 'bang' to hit PC and handset industry
A clash is brewing as PC and cell phone chip suppliers vie for new designs that fall outside traditional product categories, an analyst said in a research note Wednesday.
Doug Freedman, a chip analyst at AmTech Research, said the "line between cell phones and PCs is clearly blurring" and that consequently "PC and cell phone food chains will battle for market share in these new classes of devices." He calls this the "big bang between PCs and handsets."
This will happen as more tweener products emerge. "New product categories such as Netbooks, MIDs (… Read more
