Intel Signs Up Vendors for Classmate PC in India
109972
The Classmate PC will be sold only to schools and not through retail channels to consumers.
600662
Intel Corporation signed a cross-licensing agreement with Nvidia Corporation, which allows Nvidia to make and sell chipsets for Intel Processor powered computers.
399552
Intel is making a big push to help personal computer makers in China and India offer the Linux operating system on machines powered by the company's chips.
133041
At a meeting of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in Santa Clara later this afternoon, engineers from Intel are slated to demonstrate a working version of a conceptual CPU. As promised during the last Intel Developers' Forum, this concept CPU will incorporate 80 cores using an experimental "network-on-a-chip" architecture.
712139
InfoWorld - Intel's Classmate PC isn't just for students anymore. HCL Infosystems plans to sell a version of the Classmate PC to consumers and businesses in India who want a rugged, low-cost laptop.
317276
(InfoWorld) - Taiwanese hardware maker Asustek Computer is working with IntelÂ on a line of notebook PCs priced as low as $199, according to one of the chip maker's top executives. The new line of notebooks is intended for users in emerging markets and education, said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group. He announced the initiative with Asustek Chairman Jonney Shih during a speech at the Computex exhibition, which started today in Taipei. "The entry level notebooks for that will start at $199, street price," Maloney said. The new notebooks are similar toÂ Intel's existing Classmate PC notebooks, a line of low-cost machines aimed at schools in developing markets. The notebooks will have an Intel processor and either a 7-inch or 10-inch screen. They will come with Wi-Fi, a solid-state hard disk, and run either Linux or Windows XP. "It's totally new. It's going to have the Classmate PC brand on it, but it will be sold and shipped by Asus," Maloney said, calling the notebooks a complement to Intel's current Classmate PC line, which is aimed at bringing more students in emerging markets online. "We're delighted there's another product here that can be used to address this problem," he said. The $199 price of the low-end version of Asustek's new laptop is not far from the current price of the One Laptop Per Child's (OLPC's) laptop. In April,Â OLPC raised the priceÂ of its upcoming XO laptop, commonly called the $100 laptop, to $175.
139349
In an unexpected development, chip giant Intel Corp. has joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from Intel&#39;s rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).
526448
Intel Smart Wireless Solutions is being delivered in conjunction with Intel&#39;s new Wi-Fi client software, Intel PROSet/Wireless version 9.0, also announced today, and will work with new Intel Centrino mobile technology notebooks and select Linksys wireless
289966
Intel Corp. has reached an agreement to hire hundreds of Hewlett-Packard Co. engineers who helped design the Itanium microprocessor, a massive joint project between the two technology companies since the early 1990s.
97459
SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI  - Intel Corp.  has  detailed plans to team up with Asustek Computer Inc. ,  the world's largest maker of computer motherboards, to make a  notebook PC that would cost as little as $200 and be aimed at  mass markets in developing countries.
330075
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
620228
Intel's rugged, low-cost laptop is now available to to consumers and businesses in India.
691668
(InfoWorld) - IntelÂ launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users on Monday, continuing an effort toÂ defend its shareÂ of the fast-growing notebook PC market against Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD). Intel is selling the new Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor to PC vendors now, and says it will reach store shelves within two weeks, boosting performance for the hard-core gamers and digital artists who now use notebooks powered by Intel's Core Duo T2600. The company encouraged vendors to push even faster performance by opening the chip's speed protection locks, allowing them to overclock the processor for even faster operation. Some video game fans seek top performance by running chips beyond their rated speed limits on desktop PCsÂ such asÂ Dell's XPS 720 series. The practice is less common on notebook PCs, which are usually optimized for the best battery endurance. By concentrating on notebooks, Intel is aiming at the sweet spot of the PC market. Vendors have seen sparse growth in desktop PC shipments in recent years, increasing by only single-digit percentages in 2005, 2006, and forecasts for 2007. But demand for notebooks in soaring, with global notebook shipments showing increases of 35.9 percent in 2005, 28.4 percent in 2006, and an estimated 25.3 percent in 2007, according to the analyst firm iSuppli. In May, Intel made another effort to push sales of its mobile chips byÂ launching its Santa Rosa bundleÂ of mobile processors and chipsets, an upgrade to its popular Centrino platform.Â AMD quickly respondedÂ by announcing later that month that it would use a new mobile processor called "Griffin" as the basis of a collection of processors and chip sets code-named Puma, expected to reach markets in the middle of 2008. Intel now hopes to regain the initiative by expanding its Core 2 Extreme brand from high-end desktops to high-end notebooks. It is selling the 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme X7800 notebook chip for $851. Also on Monday, Intel announced five new desktop chips, led by the quad-core, 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850, intended for game developers, and the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700. Intel is selling those two chips for $999 and $530, respectively, priced in 1,000-unit quantities. Intel's new dual-core chips are all in the Core 2 Duo family, including the 3.0GHz E6850, for $266; the 2.66GHz E6750, for $183; and the 2.33GHz E6550, for $163. The company is shipping all the chips now, and expects vendors to bring them to markets in two weeks.
444442
By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 7--American chipmaker Intel is using British schoolchildren and  students in secret trials of a prototype laptop. The company hopes this will  help conquer the world's education IT market.
120267
Legendary Silicon Valley firm, Intel Corp. signed a raft of agreements with India's department of technology and three state governments to spread computer literacy in the country.
752781
(InfoWorld) - Unbranded PCs assembled by small out-of-garage operations have about 45 percent share of India's PC market, according to an estimate by Intel. These PCs, also known as " white boxes" will continue to have a significant share of PC sales in India, said Ravichandran R., Intel's director of sales for South Asia, in an interview last week. Unbranded PC makers are particularly popular in small cities and towns, because of the low cost of their products, and as they are seen by customers as friendly neighborhood suppliers, who offer personalized support, he added. India's PC market crossed 5 million units last year, posting 25 percent cent year-on-year growth in unit shipments, according to research firm IDC (India) in Gurgaon. Unbranded PCs will not go away, but as prices of branded PCs come down, the share of unbranded PCs has been going down, said Kapil Dev Singh, country manager at IDC, on Monday. Most multinational PC brands may not find it profitable to operate in the low-cost segment addressed by unbranded PC makers, he added Recognizing that unbranded PC makers were a key component of the Indian market, Intel introduced over a decade ago the Genuine Intel Dealer (GID) program which gave the unbranded PC assemblers access to Intel technology and certification, and a degree of legitimacy in the market. Intel has since then introduced a three-tier Intel Channel Partner program which includes Premier partners that are value-added resellers, Associate partners that are volume vendors of unbranded PCs, and Registered partners which are smaller vendors. The company has about 9,000 of these partners that help address both urban and rural markets in India. About four years ago, Intel tried to get these channel partners to also get into assembling and selling notebook PCs, but that strategy has not as yet been very successful, said Ravichandran. Demand for notebook PCs through this channel is still low as notebook PC customers are brand conscious, he said. As the users of notebook PCs are mobile, moving from city to city, they require multi-location support which unbranded PC vendors cannot offer, he added. In the event, the unbranded PC vendors are re-selling branded notebook PCs from large Indian and multinational vendors. As unbranded PC makers are not assembling notebooks, that keeps them out ofÂ a fast growing market, said IDC's Singh. The notebook PC market grew 104 percent by unit shipments last year, much faster than desktop growth at 15 percent, according to IDC. Shipments of notebook PCs were close to 1 million units. A number of multinational notebook vendors have dropped prices on their entry-level notebooks, which has made them attractive even for some first time users, Ravichandran said. Besides offering mobility and flexibility, notebook PCs also offer battery backups which come in handy in small towns where there are frequent power outages, he added. But notebook PC prices have not dropped as low as that of desktops, with some high-end desktop configurations available for less than the cost of entry-level notebook PCs. Enterprises have also been slower than consumers in adopting notebook PCs because of worries about security, Ravichandran said. As a result the share of notebook PCs in the total PC units shipped is about 20 percent, but that will grow, he added.
164149
Emirates Computers, Intel and Dell announced that they are jointly participating as silver sponsors in Higher Colleges of Technology's international student conference  Education without Borders 2007, which is being held in Abu Dhabi.