Intel helping clients in Asia to use Linux
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Intel, the world&#39;s biggest semiconductor maker, said it is helping Chinese and Indian customers build personal computers that use the Linux operating system, an alternative to Microsoft&#39;s Windows software.
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Computex attendees in Taiwan will see Intel launch an annual update to its chipsets, along with a new notebook for emerging markets.
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Intel has launched an effort to make it easier for the company's Chinese and Indian customers to build and buy desktop computers that run Linux rather than Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows software.
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The release date of Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution, has reportedly been moved up so the operating system can be proposed for a massive education database to be built in South Korea.
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Intel Malaysia to slash more than 1,000 jobs: Report    KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Computer chip giant Intel is implementing a voluntary separation scheme (VSS) in Malaysia which is expected to involve between 1,000 and 2,000 employees in the country, local newspaper reported Monday.
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Strong demand from emerging markets and the introduction of more low-cost laptops will boost Intel&#39;s sales in Asia during 2008, but company executives are keeping a close eye on the U.S. economy for signs of a slowdown.&quot;Overall, I&#39;m optimistic about growth in Asia, but it would be imprudent not to be cautious and mindful of the economic situation in the U.S.,&quot; said Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel&#39;s Asia-Pacific operations, during a telephone interview.Intel&#39;s Asia-Pacific sales include chips sold for use in Asia as well as products that are built into computers for export to other regions. As a result, regional executives are closely watching what happens in the U.S., where concerns are mounting that the economy is headed for a recession.&quot;The export business that&#39;s dependent on the United States might see a bit of a slowdown, but the bulk of the growth is coming from [Asian] consumption. The consumption that we see across Asia-Pacific is quite strong and I see no impact or slowdown there whatsoever at this point in time,&quot; Shenoy said.&quot;But we&#39;re going to watch it. We&#39;re going to watch it carefully,&quot; he said.Analyst firm IDC expects Asian PC shipments to grow 16.7 percent this year, compared to an increase of 3 percent in the U.S.&quot;We&#39;ve pretty much been assuming no major impact [on PC demand] from the subprime crisis in the U.S.,&quot; said Bryan Ma, director of personal systems research at IDC Asia-Pacific, adding that the market research firm is monitoring economic developments in the U.S.Intel is coming off a strong fourth quarter, despite being squeezed somewhat by lower-than-expected flash memory prices. Strong processor demand during the period helped push Intel&#39;s Asia-Pacific revenue to US$5.3 billion, a quarterly record and about half of the company&#39;s total sales.&quot;Demand on the CPU side was strong. We set a record in terms of CPU shipments [and] we set a record for chipsets,&quot; Shenoy said.Most of Intel&#39;s processor revenue during the period came from 65-nanometer chips. The first chips from Intel&#39;s 45-nanometer processor lineup, called Penryn, were introduced in November and made a &quot;nominal&quot; contribution to Asia-Pacific revenue during the fourth quarter, Shenoy said.That contribution will increase rapidly over the next several months, with Intel&#39;s shipments of 45-nanometer processors to surpass those of 65-nanometer chips during the third quarter, he said.Two upcoming Intel products, Silverthorne and Canmore, should also make their presence felt in Asia this year, Shenoy said.Silverthorne, which is produced using the same 45-nanometer manufacturing process, is the first chip designed by Intel to be used in low-cost laptops and will be available during the second half of the year. Currently, Intel offers a version of its aging Celeron M processor for these types of machines, such as Asustek&#39;s popular Eee PC.Silverthorne, which is intended to be inexpensive and easy on battery life, will appear in low-cost notebooks that should spur faster growth in Asian demand for mobile computers, Shenoy said.The other chip that Intel expects to see do well in Asia is Canmore, a system-on-chip announced during the Consumer Electronics Show that combines a processor with graphics and high-definition video capabilities. Designed for set-top boxes and other consumer electronics, Canmore is due during the second half of this year.&quot;There are tremendous opportunities for a product like that in countries like Taiwan and Korea,&quot; Shenoy said.One technology that isn&#39;t expected to make much headway in Asia this year is WiMax.Apart from South Korea, where WiMax is already in commercial use, the wireless broadband technology hasn&#39;t caught on much in Asia. As a result, WiMax products will not see widespread adoption in the region until 2009, Shenoy said.
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(InfoWorld) - The next Linux distribution that IBM throws its weight behind is likely to be China's Red Flag Linux, suggesting that for businesses elsewhere in the world the Linux market will remain a two-horse race for the time being. Support from vendors like IBM and Oracle makes a big difference for the adoption of a Linux distribution. It gives big businesses the confidence that the software will be around and supported for several years to come. IBM wants to give its customers as much choice with Linux as it can, but the cost of porting and testing applications for more than the two leading distributions -- from Red Hat and NovellÂ -- makes it impractical to widely support a third option, said Adam Jollans, IBM's worldwide marketing and strategy manager for open source. The next distribution that IBM supports widely is likely to be one for the Chinese market, where the leading contender right now is Red Flag Linux, from Red Flag Software, Jollans said. "We're watching China very closely to see what happens there," he said. IBM has around 300 software products. Supporting both Red Hat and Suse Linux effectively doubles the number for which it has to do testing. Adding support for its three main hardware platforms -- x86, and IBM's Power and zSeries -- means IBM has to test 1,800 software products. Adding broad support for a third Linux OS, such as Debian, would take that number to 2,700. "We're not ready yet to go to another multiple," Jollans said, during a discussion with reporters in Paris on Thursday. The company will support other distributions today, but typically only for large customers or large installations. Jollans also addressed a question about why IBM did not release its own Linux distribution several years ago. "We thought that if IBM was in the market as an 800-pound gorilla, it would have a negative effect on the Linux market. We won't do something that sets us against the community," he said.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50346)  has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Computer  Hardware in Japan to their offering.
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BANGALORE, India - Intel Corp. said Friday (Nov. 19) it is considering additional investments in the tens of millions of dollars to expand its research and development efforts in India.
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Red Hat has set up an engineering and support center in Pune, India, to provide support for its customers in India and in English-speaking markets worldwide. Red Hat already has three support centers in North America, the U.K., and Australia which provide support in their respective regions. The center in India will enable the company to offer around-the-clock support to customers worldwide, Red Hat said. The center will also have a test lab for hardware and software certification, and will house a team that will work on localization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Indian languages. Open source vendors like Red Hat and proprietary software vendors like Microsoft are vying for a number of federal and state e-government projects in India, as well as a number of large private-sector deals.
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Intel is working on another laptop aimed at serving the developing world.
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Intel is one of only two multinational semiconductor companies to announce that it is evaluating setting up a fab in India. The other, Cypress Semiconductor announced earlier this year that it was considering
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The company behind China's leading Linux client distribution, Red Flag Software Co. Ltd., is shifting its main focus to its server operating system and enterprise customers, and planning to expand sales overseas, the company's acting president said in an interview on Friday.
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In a future with millions of users and devices taxing the Net, Intel-based servers will help out.
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South Korea's Haansoft is joining the effort to put Linux on computers in Asia.
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Intel already operates assembly and test plants in China, but it could be ready to start actually making chips there.
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Intel Corp., which has numerous offices in Asia, is making cash donations to organizations offering relief services following the Dec. 26 tsunami that has devastated coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia.