Samsung considering taking on Taiwan netbook vendors in their home market

From Digitimes -

Samsung Taiwan confirmed that its mother company is considering entering the Taiwan netbook market, but the company currently does not yet have any official plans. Samsung's brand name should not have problem drawing Taiwan consumers, as the company already does well in the market with its handsets, LCD TVs and printers. But it may find it difficult to gain a share in the netbook market since Acer and Asus together already have a 60% market share and it will also need to compete against vendors such as MSI, Hewlett-Packard), Toshiba as well as Taiwan-based second-tier vendors.

Samsung to become second largest netbook vendor in Europe in 3Q09

From Digitimes -

Samsung is expected to surpass Asus and HP to become the second largest netbook player in Europe for Q3 2009, trailing only Acer. Samsung's success comes primarily from mobile telco bundles, which it is now pursuing both in the Americas and Asia.

Per IDC, Samsung shipped 2.15M notebooks worldwide in H1 2009, for a 3% maket share and 8th place ranking. European shipments accounted for 1M units, giving Samsung a 5% market share and a 6th ranking for the continent. The company is on track to hit 6M units for 2009 and 10M for 2010 as it pushes ultra-thin notebooks via bundling with 3G services.

Samsung planning 11.6-inch Ion-based netbook

From Digitimes -

Samsung plans to launch an Nvidia Ion-equipped netbook with Intel Atom N-series CPU and 11.6-inch display later this month. The new model will break Intel's restrictions on netbooks having a panel size of 10.2" or below. Lenovo has earlier broke Intel's restrictions by launching a 12-inch Intel Atom N270-based netbook last month.

Intel has already canceled the two vendors' preferential pricing for Intel Atom N270 CPUs but declined to respond to this report citing customer confidentiality.