By Eric Auchard
Reuters
Reuters
Company hopes to compete with Apple, also introduces 'netbooks'
....One cost advantage is that many of the components inside Samsung machines are made by its semiconductor and other finished-product businesses. This includes Samsung's SuperBrite light-emitting diode, backlit liquid crystal displays.
The company estimates that 80 percent of the value of its PCs are from Samsung components — everything but the microprocessor and graphics chips. As the world's biggest maker of memory chips, storage is Samsung's biggest weapon.....
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