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Freescale aims to sell Google Android netbooks in Q2
Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:02pm EST
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Chipmaker Freescale, which began making chips for small netbook laptop computers last month, plans to expand its offering to include chipsets for Google's Android operating system by next quarter.
The privately held company spun off from Motorola in 2004 will also collaborate with wireless technology companies Wavecom and Option to make higher-end netbooks offering faster, third-generation connections.
Netbooks -- pared-down, light, inexpensive notebooks made for easy Web browsing on the go -- have seen explosive growth in the past year and are still a bright spot for computer makers although growth may come at the expense of more expensive PCs.
Google's Android software is so far being adopted by phone companies to make smartphones with computer-like capabilities but is being designed to support all kinds of connected devices.
Freescale expects the amount of netbooks sold this year to double to about 30 million. Mobile research firm ABI Research has a higher forecast of 35 million.
Loss-making Freescale competes with wireless chip giants Qualcomm and Texas Instruments but says it can connect its chips to the computer's memory far more cheaply.
Most of the netbooks in its target markets, aimed at casual, young users in the West, ship with only Wi-Fi connectivity.
"For price reasons, the netbooks are going to primarily be shipped with just Wi-Fi. For mobile professional users, you do need 3G connectivity," Glen Burchers, marketing director for Freescale's consumer business, told Reuters.
As well as Google Android, Freescale will also support third-generation operating systems from Phoenix Technologies and Xandros starting next quarter, the company said at the Mobile World Congress trade fair in Barcelona.
The netbook market is shaping up as a battleground for Intel's Atom processors -- which currently have the market to themselves -- and chips based on designs from Britain's ARM.
Freescale has thrown its lot in with ARM, saying ARM-based processors have battery life of about eight hours -- about four times as long as Atom -- less heat generation, eliminating the need for fans, and far cheaper prices.
Burchers said he believed that in time ARM could capture about half the world's netbook chip market, with the first ARM-based netbooks coming to market this summer.
Freescale designs its netbook chips for free software operating systems such as Ubuntu, saving manufacturers the cost of license fees for Microsoft Windows.
"I think for developed countries you'll see good, better and best. I believe the good and better will be based on ARM. I believe the best will be Atom-based and will still run Windows, because you can do more with it," Burchers told Reuters.
Freescale believes netbooks built around its technology will be able to be made at a cost of about $100. Netbook prices currently start at about $200. Continued...
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