Intel to Release Netbook Developer’s Kit
Just today, Intel released a software developer’s kit for netbook applications. The kit includes tools that are compatible with netbook’s Intel Atom processors. More specifically, Intel claims that the new SDK beta kit will allow computer programmers and developers to create applications that are customized for netbooks and that will be able to be sold as retail products.
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The new SDK beta kit will be based on C++ and Mobilin programming languages and will be able to be used on desktop and mobile versions of the Windows OS as well. If you’re interested, click here to download the software from Intel’s website.
In fact, if you’re up for a competition or even a chance to show off some of your mad programming skills, Intel’s hosting a Developer Challenge for developers to submit their newly created applications.
Via Examiner.
Netbook Sales Help Boost CPU Sales
Global CPU shipments have reached a record high of a 23% increase in Q3 of 2009, and this is largely a result of an increase in demand for netbooks.
While unit sales increased 23%, revenues only increased 14%, due to the low unit price of netbooks. According to Shane Rau, the director of semiconductor and personal computing research at IDC, “since PC processor shipments overall just slightly exceeded shipments in Q3 of 2008 – which was itself a record quarter at the time – we know the processor market is recovering.”
While this currently seems to be a good situation for netbook and chip manufacturers, we still have to be on the lookout. Rau pointed out that a lot of Intel Atom processors are being sold into markets like China, which offer government incentives. “The Chinese market can be very opaque – there are lots of places where inventories can hide. We have to be on the lookout for when China decides it can’t consume more processors. Meanwhile, the U.S. market is still hamstrung by housing foreclosures and rising job losses.”
Via PCMag.
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