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Shuttle pioneered the SFF or small form factor market with its XPC computers and together with AOpen it’s the last bastion for these types of machines. However, there’s no real growth in this market and users have shyed away from buying the often over priced Shuttle XPCs in favour of mini-ITX based options and cheaper mATX systems. At Computex this year Shuttle, as well as many other of Taiwanese motherboard and PC makers, launched an all-in-one system based on Intel’s dual core Atom 330 in an attempt to expand into new markets.

There has been a long time rumour about Shuttle considering moving into notebooks and this is what the SPA strategy seems to be, but thanks to Digitimes a little bit more of what is going on behind the scenes has come to light. It appears that Shuttle is working on something that is refered to as the Shuttle New NB Ecosystem where NB is short for notebook. While we don’t know exactly what the SPA strategy is, we have a feeling that the two are closely linked.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/...tebook-market/

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