The newly emerged Netbook market that was actively created after Taiwan's ASUSTek shipped from 4Q, 2007 is differentiated from the traditional NotePC and gathering attention from many industry-related companies. The 2008 Netbook shipments result were at 14.6 million units which is a significant increase after being commercialized for a year. In 2009, a further growth is expected from 2008 that Netbook is expected to take up to 17.2% of overall NotePC market recording 26.3 million in shipments. Especially, Taiwan's Acer and ASUSTek recorded more than 70% market share in Netbook shipments of 2008 and the high market share from these two companies are expected to continue in 2009 at over 67%.

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