This year, superthin laptops tend to buy only well-people can move from the upper segment of the middle thanks to cheap, but fairly powerful processors, the companies represented by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp.

Earlier this year, AMD introduced a mobile platform for extremely thin and light notebook with a fairly low price, comparable to the price netbook. The company Intel, which holds 80% of the market for processors, in turn, provided a platform for ultrathin laptops under the name Consumer Ultra Low Voltage or CULV, which, according to the manufacturer, provides a period of more autonomous work and computing power, sufficient for most users for a low price.

What the flip side of lower prices for ultra model? The growth of low-cost segment of ultrathin laptops can lead to significant loss of revenue to Intel and AMD from the sale of elite fast processors. "This is a fairly significant threat" to the price, said Roger Kay (Roger Kay), analyst of Endpoint Technologies. In his view, the mass production of thin notebooks available will reduce the total profits of producers in the market of notebooks.

AMD Company in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard has developed a laptop Pavilion dv2. Intel Company started to produce its processors CULV this month, and at the Computex exhibition in Taipei were shown prototypes of notebooks based on these chips, including companies, Acer and Asus. A prerequisite to the creation of new mobile platforms is the view that more and more people prefer wireless and mobile technology, consumers want a light notebook that would have been able not only to internet surfing, but on something more, which netbook not able to provide.

However, according to analysts, the growth of this market could have an adverse impact on other segments of the market of notebooks, as previously there was a similar effect because of the proliferation of cheap models for processors, Atom. It is anticipated that the price of laptops on the platform CULV will start at $ 500, meaning that analysts' fears unfounded.

Company AMD has developed a version of its platform for ultrathin laptops based on the dual processors. According to the manufacturer, the new platform will increase the time of autonomous work almost doubled and will provide greater productivity to create a powerful thin and light notebooks with affordable prices.