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Inside the notebook of 2006

Rupert Goodwins ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 19 Feb 2004 10:35 GMT

It will become possible one day, if a customer of ours wants to put a sensor in the notebook, it could act as a beacon to say "here I am". But there are lots of privacy issues. If I'm drinking in a bar, I do not want this thing beeping to my boss saying "Anand Chandrasekher is in a bar in Hawthorne Lane, Paul Otellini [Intel president and chief operating officer]! Take notice!" That's not fun. But the capability will be there.

Will we see more technologies in common between mobile and desktop systems?
As the mobile segment grows in size and starts to encroach on desktops, a large part of that growth is replacing desktops. At the moment around 25 percent of clients are notebooks, by 2007 general consensus is between 35 and 40 percent. It's reasonable to expect some convergence to take place, both at the form factor and on the silicon. You get Pentium Extreme Edition in notebooks, and the flip will happen too with mobile chips in desktops. This happens at the edge. That edge will remain in the future. I don't know if that will shrink or grow.

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