Analysis said that the Windows 8-ARM combination will spawn new low-cost notebooks

According to foreign media reports, market research company IHS-iSuppli predicts that Windows 8 and Qualcomm, Nvidia and other companies' ARM processor combination will spawn new low-cost notebooks. It may threaten Intel's dominant position in the notebook field. IHS-iSuppli analyst Matthew Wilkins said in a report today that the PC processor market will usher in real competition after more than 30 years of market dominated by x86 architecture processors. According to Wilkins, shipments of ARM processors will increase in the next few years —— about one-quarter of notebooks in 2015 will be equipped with ARM processing There will be real competition in the PC processor market. Wilkins said that the ARM processor is not necessarily configured on a system running Linux or Google's Chrome OS. Most ARM systems will run Windows 8, "the promotion of the ARM version of Windows 8 that Microsoft plans to release next year." Next, in 2015, the proportion of ARM systems in global notebook shipments will increase from 3% in 2012 to 22.9%, and shipments will increase from 7.6 million to 74 million units. Wilkins said that ARM notebooks will be priced below $700, comparable to notebooks equipped with Intel Celeron M, Atom, and AMD's E-series processors. ARM notebooks running Windows 8 will require notebook vendors to "betray" Intel and AMD, at least in the low-end market. Many PC manufacturers have already launched tablets, such as HP, Samsung, and Acer. PC makers are not unbelievable with cheap laptops with ARM processors. Of course, Intel is not sitting still. Intel has developed a plan to develop an Ultrabook notebook design similar to the Apple MacBook Air. The Ultrabook is equipped with Intel's first on-chip system processor, Haswell, for mainstream notebooks, which is expected to be available in 2013. If there is no big move in price/performance and energy balance in the next few years, Intel will continue to maintain its performance advantages for ARM processors.