I cut this from an article on ZD Net about the new PIII chip
Wintel undone?
But more important, over the next five years, the nice, neat Wintel world may draw to a close. International Data Corp. projects that by the year 2003, personal computers no longer will be the dominant device for accessing the Internet. As soon as 2001, cell phones, game consoles, handheld assistants, information appliances, network computers, set-top boxes and the like could represent nearly half of all Web access devices being shipped in the U.S. The issue, researcher Frank Gens has been arguing for the past year, is when Intel will introduce a non-Pentium product line to serve non-Windows machines.
|
