Intel offers prize for multimedia PC
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Chip giant unveils developers contest to build the smallest, sleekest multimedia PC, with a prize of up to $1 million.
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PC maker competes with Sony and Toshiba on hi-def video laptop options.
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A technology agency is offering a $100,000 prize in a competition to develop multimedia search technologies.
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(InfoWorld) - IntelÂ looks set to find itself in the midst of an industry battle over how the power and complexity of computers should be combined with the convenience and simplicity of consumer electronics -- and the company couldn't be happier. Speaking with reporters on the opening day of the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan, Eric Kim, the senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, Tuesday praised Apple Computer for successfully integrating computers and consumer electronics with its iPod digital music player and iTunes online store, which use proprietary standards. However, at the same time he also called on Japanese consumer-electronics makers to adopt open standards centered aroundÂ Intel's own Viiv platformÂ for PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system. "Clearly, Apple's orientation is to deliver the best possible user experience from end-to-end by being closed. That's what they do and they are very, very good at it," Kim said, praising Apple's ability to produce products that are easy to use, despite the complex technology that lies underneath. "We have a little motto inside Intel, 'Let Apple, be Apple.' We are happy to serve them," he said. While Apple basks in the ongoing success of the iPod and iTunes, Intel urged Japanese electronics companies to make convergence a feature of more consumer-electronics products. Praising Japanese consumer-electronics companies as "the most innovative," the former Samsung Electronics executive called on them to work with Intel and adopt open standards for convergence. By keeping standards open, manufacturers help insure that users can move their content seamlessly between devices from different manufacturers, regardless of where the content came from, Kim said. "At the end of the day, consumers want choice," he said. The open standards that Intel is promoting are centered around its Viiv platform, a set of specifications for PCs designed to interact with consumer-electronics devices. For example, Viiv PCs can be connected to a television via a digital media adapter that lets users access and view PC content from their television. Intel is also working with content makers to make available content that is designed for Viiv systems. Next year, Intel will introduce software for Viiv that allows users to securely access their home PC from a mobile computer using a VPN (virtual private network) connection, Kim said. Whichever way the battle unfolds between open and proprietary systems, Intel is pleased to find itself in the middle of the looming battle. "We want to be the underlying foundation provider to both closed solutions and open solutions," Kim said.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Intel said it would join the board of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, which seeks to build inexpensive computers for the developing world.
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Processor could steal spotlight from AMD, Intel's forthcoming dual-core chips.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel has tied with three large Indian PC vendors to assemble the Classmate PC, a PC specially designed for schools. The three vendors -- HCL Infosystems, Wipro, and Zenith ComputersÂ -- will start shipping the product to Indian schools next month. The Classmate PCÂ will be sold only to schools, and not through retail channels to consumers, John McClure, Intel's director for marketing in South Asia said on Monday. The Classmate PC has been specially designed to work in a networked classroom environment, and comes with software and features that give the teacher in the classroom control over the dissemination of content to students' PCs, he said. The Classmate PC, for example, does not have a hard disk. Instead it contains up to 2GB of NAND flash memory. Most of the content will reside on the teacher's PC, McClure said. Intel's manufacturering partners, such as HCL, Wipro, and Zenith, will team with content providers, education services providers, and system integrators to deploy the Classmate PCs in schools. The PC, which can run both Linux and Windows operating systems, is powered by a 900MHz Intel Celeron mobile processor, and comes with Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, Intel said. It has a 7-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) screen, and an option of 256MB or 512MB of RAM, Intel said. The device weighs less than 1.45 kg and comes with a six-cell lithium-ion battery promising three to four hours use, the company said. The introduction of the Classmate PC follows pilots of the product by Intel in some schools in the country. The price of the product with the control software will be 18,000 Indian Rupees ($450), with the education software and Wi-Fi connectivity available at extra cost. That is a high price by Indian standards, prompting Intel to target the device in the first phase at private schools, rather than government-run schools that typically run on shoe-string budgets. While well-funded private schools may deploy the computers across the school, at some other private schools, it is more likely that the school will introduce the PCs initially in one class, such as the science class, according to McClure. In another rollout scenario, schools may deploy a few in each class, and assign each PC to a group of students, he said. Intel expects some of its partners to offer schools the option to pay for the PCs on a monthly fee per student, McClure said. The Classmate PC is also being rolled out in Nigeria and Brazil, McClure said. Intel plans to introduce new models of the Classmate PC by the end of this year or early next year, targeted at higher education and professional schools like nursing schools, he said. These models may have some modifications in features, including large hard disk drives, to suit the usage models envisaged, McClure said. Intel is not targeting the Classmate PCs at government-run schools in India, both because of their cost, and also because most of these schools are still behind in technology adoption. For these schools, Intel is donating about 10,000 PCs over the next three to five years, and is also training teachers on the use of computers. A number of Intel programs, including one called the Community PC, which offers a shared PC to local communities, aim to bridge the digital divide for this segment of the population, McClure said. Intel announced earlier this month that it hasÂ joined the One Laptop Per ChildÂ (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from Intel's rival Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD). In India, however, the OLPC is a nonstarter, with the Indian government deciding not to adopt it because it does not provide for control by teachers, among other reasons.
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InfoWorld - Discussions are under way to put an Intel microprocessor inside a version of the&#160;One Laptop Per Child&#160;(OLPC) project&#39;s &quot;$100 laptop&quot; for children in developing countries, according to representatives from both parties.
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Microsoft gave some encouraging news for IT managers considering future server hardware based on multicore processors. Both Intel and AMD are developing multicore chips, which pack two processors onto a single
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A broad patent agreement will let the graphic-chip specialist build chipsets for Intel PCs.
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Chipzilla backs crappy AMD-based laptop You can usually gauge how thrilled Intel is with a given announcement by examining the length of its associated news release. Today, we find Intel joining the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program and managing a grand total of five paragraphs to tout the achievement.â¦
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The chipmaker unveiled on Wednesday its Intel Express 910GL, a chipset that offers PC makers the ability to add more-advanced features, such as Intel High Definition Audio, to their low-end PCs.
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Intel is researching technology that weds memory chips to processor cores, and can yield impressive gains in speed and efficiency.
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New Quad FX Platform gives Advanced Micro Devices an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip, but in a piecemeal fashion.
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TI extends Imagination licensing deal too Intel is to pump Â£5.28m ($9.88m) into UK-based graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies. The chip giant also said it had extended its licence to use Imagination's video and graphics processing cores - as, separately, did Texas Instruments.â¦
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This week, chip giant Intel is hosting its twice-a-year Intel Developer Forum, where PC hardware and software developers will hear the company&#39;s plans for future products.