Printed On:	July 20, 2008, 12:25 pm
	Category:	Mobile Computing
	Type:	News
	Posted By:	Visionary
	Date Posted:	September 5, 2007, 3:15 pm

ASUS to Launch 2nd Gen. Eee PCs in April 2008

DigiTimes reported that ASUS plans to ship 200,000-300,000 Eee PCs by the end of this year and annual shipments for next year will grow to more than three million units at least. The first batch of Eee PCs, which will hit the market in the second half of September, will feature a 4GB SSD and 512MB memory. ASUS plans to introduce second-generation Eee PCs in April 2008 which will feature Intel's Merom processors. The power consumption of the next-generation notebooks will reduce to 7W TDP, down from 11W TDP adding that it may remove the fan to save more power and reduce noise. Apart from the ultra low-cost notebook, ASUS stressed that the company is not ruling out the possibility of introducing a second brand for its low-end notebook products in the future.