Intel to spread computer literacy in India
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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.
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Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, has partnered with two Saudi Arabian software companies to develop an electronic version of Islam's holy book and a training computer for teachers packed with the government-approved curriculum for schoolchildren.
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Intel Corp. will announce today that it has reached a significant milestone in manufacturing computer chips at ever-smaller levels.
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Intel Corp. plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip &#151; products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Intel expanded the capabilities of its Centrino chips Thursday by introducing support for an additional wireless networking standard known as 802.
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Intel, looking to maintain mind share and market share in the mobile PC space, said Thursday it will begin shipping new, tri-band wireless functionality in its Centrino platform next month and will boost software and security support.
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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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Intel Corp.  detailed plans on Tuesday 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 aimed at the education market in developing countries.
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Intel, seeing growing demand for Linux desktop systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is stepping up its outreach efforts to channel partners.
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Intel Corp.  will unveil next year a bundle of chips designed for home entertainment computers, and support the move with a branding campaign modeled on the successful launch of its Centrino chips for notebook computers, a person briefed on the matter said.
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Fulfilling a long-time goal, Intel is set to introduce this week its first chipset that supports all three current forms of Wi-Fi, according to sources familiar with the announcement.
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Intel Corp. said on Friday it will support a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher's project to put computers in the hands of poor children around the world, reversing its long-standing opposition to the proposal.
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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.
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(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.
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Intel on Thursday announced a component that&#39;s compatible with all Wi-Fi standards, which will let the chipmaker reach the full audience of individuals who want to wirelessly connect to local area networks.
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About half of the work on Intel's recently announced "teraflop research chip" was done in India, highlighting the country's growing importance to Intel's research and development efforts.
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Intel announced its plans on Thursday to improve the Internet by making it safer, more useful, reliable, and accessible. At Fall IDF (Intel Developer Forum), Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and Chief