Smartphones As Complex As Netbooks?

"It never occurred to me to examine the integrated circuit footprint inside a smartphone and a netbook, but that’s what EE Times does. Their example above shows rising complexity in smartphones as costs of traditional computing decrease. In a sense, we've seen this trend for the past few years, but I'd equate it to more capable smartphones approaching acceptable and usable levels of computing."

Kevin Tofel at jkOnTheRun has an interesting analysis of an EE Times article that compares a netbook to a smartphone in terms of component content and cost. The two platforms are closer than you might have realized