The S9, seen above, will be primarily geared towards light portable computing and more with a 3.3-inch 480×272 AMOLED display, 500 MHz dual-core CPU (Atom, possibly?), capacitive touchscreen, TV-out, voice recorder, digital TV (T-DMB), Bluetooth, and music/movie/photo/document viewers.
Intel plans to add WiFi to chips for portable computing devices only, not for desktop computers.
Intel had said on Monday that it would buy Xircom, a maker of mobile computing gear, for $748 million, to complement its line of desktop computer components.
Smartphones are brilliant, portable computing and communications devices.
In 1994 the phone company shut down the effort in portable computing.
Portable computing, social networking, smartphone apps, and cloud computing were all ubiquitous in 2010.
"The iPad is reinventing portable computing and outstripping the wildest expectations".
There are also surveys of video games, portable computing, networking and the development of the Internet.
Nevertheless, for more than a year Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, has been proclaiming the features of a style of tablet computing that he asserts will come to displace both desktop and portable computing.
If durability and other problems are overcome, one area of Dr. Py's research could mean the ultimate in portable computing.
And the need for easily available energy is compounded as laptops, cell phones and personal digital assistants put portable computing into more hands.
