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For some users, the new generation of ultraportable notebooks comes close to embodying the Holy Grail for road warriors. Their laptop-like keyboards make them more usable for typing tasks than smart phones, but they are lighter and cheaper than traditional laptops. The original Asus Eee PC, for instance, cost about US$400 and weighed about two pounds when it was introduced last October.

Asustek Computer (Asus) plans to launch as many as three new Eee PC netbook models in the next few months as shipments of the popular devices take off.

Later this year, Asustek will offer a version of its Eee PC mini-laptops with built-in 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) to compete with rivals that are doing the same, a company representative said.

AMD has announced the availability of its 690 chipset, the company's first integrated chipset for AMD processors that includes the ATI Radeon X1250 graphics processor.

Taiwanese hardware maker Elitegroup Computer Systems is shipping 300,000 low-cost laptops to the U.S. bundled with Lindows.com's operating system, the software provider said Thursday.

Sydney-based components distributor Checksun has thrown its weight behind ASRock, an emerging motherboard vendor that has taken international markets by storm with its aggressive pricing.

Advanced Micro Devices and its hardware partners are taking advantage of the Computex Taipei 2002 exhibition to show off motherboard and chipset support for AMD's upcoming Hammer family of 64-bit processors, with at least one motherboard maker giving a hint as to how fast the desktop version of the chip may run when it ships later this year.