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January 25, 2012

Ultrabooks transform the market of portable computers

Ultrabooks transform portable computers

Analysts at Juniper Research released a forecast for the worldwide market for handheld computers until 2016.

Ultrabooks transform portable computers

Intel vice president Mooly Eden shows ultrabooks at CES 2012.

According to Juniper Research, in five years all laptops will look like ultrabuki, that is, become thin and light. Sales ultrabukov grow from approximately 20 million units this year to 178 million in 2016. Contribute to increased demand for such devices will be out of Windows 8 and the appearance of a 22-nanometer processors Intel's next-generation code-named Ivy Bridge.

At the same time continue to increase sales of tablet PCs. Volume market segment, according to Juniper Research, 2016-mu could reach 253 million units.

Demand for netbooks, however, will decrease. If in 2011, according to preliminary data, the world received about 25.2 million such computers, by 2016 sales to fall to one-third of this figure - up to about 8 million units.

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