AMD announced that NEC, Sony Corporation and Fujitsu are expected to feature notebook PCs based on seventh-generation mobile AMD Athlon 4 and mobile AMD Duron processors. Collectively, these companies commanded over 50 percent of total PC shipments, including notebooks and desktops, for the year 2000 in Japan.
Japan is the world's second largest consumer of PCs.
NEC, the country's leading PC maker, is the first to adopt the newly introduced 1GHz mobile AMD Athlon 4 processor in Japan. Sony and Fujitsu have both announced systems based on the mobile AMD Duron processor. NEC is also offering systems based on the mobile AMD Duron processor. Check out the SE Weekly Memory Price Guide here . The Bluetooth MultiPort, an interchangeable module designed by Compaq is integrated into the Compaq Evo notebook display panel to enable wireless communication with other Bluetooth enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or printers.