Support for GPS, originally the exclusive privilege of the former smartphones and GPS-navigators, gradually penetrates into other market segments. The next step in the spread of GPS will be the installation of GPS-enabled laptops with the operating system Windows 7, which provides improved support for the functions of GPS. And it has gone so far that Microsoft handed out to developers in 1000 GPS modules to create applications based on the use of GPS.

Used GPS units produced by Swiss company U-Blox, which works in conjunction with Taiwanese chip manufacturers to develop a GPS-solutions that can be integrated directly into modern laptops.

The source reports that the installation of GPS-enabled laptops will begin next year. Ming Chan (Ming Chiang), manager of the Taiwan unit U-blox, said that in the near future modules integrated GPU will be the standard for small notebooks, which sounds more or less plausible.