From the past couple of months, a lot of (white-box) netbook manufactures have entered the netbook market. As a result of that, the supply of the N270 is able to meet the huge demand of the manufactures. Intel has decided to increase the price of the N270 Atom processor to the extent that the price of the N280 processor will be same as the N270 processor.
If the price of the N270 will price same as N280, why not just switch to N280?
[via digitimes]