Nov 18

Phone chip designer ARM announced announced they are getting into bed with Ubuntu to produce Netbooks (PR people called it an alliance)

“The release of a full Ubuntu desktop distribution supporting latest ARM technology will enable rapid growth, with internet everywhere, connected ultra portable devices,” said Ian Drew, vice president of Marketing, ARM.

“The always-on experience available with mobile devices is rapidly expanding to new device categories such as netbooks, laptops and other internet connected products.”

I like the sound of this, ARM need to do some work to break into the market which is pretty much dominated by Intel at the moment. So I’m hoping the new chip in conjunction with Ubuntu will lead to cheaper prices and that’s good for everybody.

The product launch is expected around June 09 at Computex.

Source: Network World