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Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive predicts that Netbooks will eventually disappear. This thinking, though obviously favorable to AMD's strategy, isn't completely at odds with Intel's. The lightweight HP Pavilion dv2, which uses the AMD Neo processor, is marketed as a notebook (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) "The distinction between what ... Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog (link)

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