Intel, Asustek announce plans for low-cost laptop
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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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US chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has introduced a low-cost Internet access device that could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time technology users in the developing world.
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Intel's rugged, low-cost laptop is now available to to consumers and businesses in India.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.   on Monday launched a line of computer processors that  use less power, saying its adoption of new manufacturing  techniques will help it compete with rival Intel Corp.
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Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a stripped-down, low-cost computing device as part of a plan to move into developing markets. The chip maker aims to provide 50 per cent of the world with internet and computing
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Intel this week unveiled details on a new low-power processor, codenamed Silverthorne, for a class of pocketable, net-connected gadgets Intel is calling "mobile internet devices," or MIDs.
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(InfoWorld) - If the Internet radio with iPod port and laptop PC built for microprocessor overclocking that Asustek Computer showed off on Monday are any indication of things to come at the Computex Taipei 2007 trade show, then be prepared for a few surprises. Asustek designed the C90 laptop PC for overclocking by adding extra heat sinks and other cooling systems to ward off overheating, the company said at a news conference ahead of the Computex trade show, which opens Tuesday. It plans to sell a barebones version of the device worldwide so users and companies can add whatever microprocessors, graphics processors, memory, and optical disc drives they want, as well as offer its own laptops aimed at the high-end market, meaning the price could top $2,000 on some models. Users looking to lower their laptop costs can add a desktop PC processor to the C90. The cooling systems ensure the laptop can handle desktop microprocessors, which are normally less expensive and more powerful than processors aimed at laptops. The major drawback with a desktop processor in a laptop, however, is that it uses more power, so battery life would suffer. The C90 will debut worldwide in mid-June. The company also showed off two Internet radios that operate from wireless Internet connections. They don't need to be hooked up to a PC. The main difference between the two is that the Asustek Internet Radio 3 (AIR 3), comes with an iPod dock on top. When users plug in an iPod, they can listen to their favorite songs from speakers inside the AIR 3. The device also includes a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port, allowing users to plug in flash sticks and listen to songs off them instead, according to Chris Yu, product manager at Asustek's digital home division. Despite the USB, the device will not play songs from digital music players other than the iPod, he said. The AIR 3 will launch in time for end-of-the-year holidays in the U.S. and Taiwan, Yu said, and cost around $400. The smaller AIR 1, which does not include an iPod port, will cost $200. Asustek also showed off two high quality PC Web cameras. These 2-megapixel cameras will be out at by the end of August in Europe, the Asia Pacific and Taiwan. They will launch in the U.S. next year. The difference between the two is that the one camera has an auto-focus lens. It costs about $20 more than the one without an auto focus lens. The company expects the cameras to cost between $90 and $110. The Asus A33 media player aims to combine a stereo receiver, DVD player and VCR (video cassette recorder) all in one. But it's not cheap. The media player costs $1,600, equipped with a Super Multi DVD (digital video disc) rewriter, a 320GB hard drive, a dual channel TV tuner, embedded amplifier and wireless (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11n) connections, and allows full HD 1080p TV recording. Asustek also plans to offer lower-end models and will produce the devices for partner companies, possibly requiring some specs to be changed. An A33 without the amplifier, for example, will cost under $1,000. "You have to offer dual channel recording these days," said Terry Huang, a marketing specialist at Asustek. "People may want to watch one show while they record another, or two others. Some day, we'll have to put 10 tuners on so people can record multiple TV shows." The A33 will be available in August in Taiwan and in September in other parts of Asia, Huang said. By the first quarter of 2008, he expects the company to launch its first high-definition disc player, likely a Blu-ray Disc device. "We prefer Blu-ray because the storage space is bigger," Huang said. The company hasn't put one out yet because the cost of such devices remains high and there aren't enough movies and other content yet available for the devices, he said.
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Both Lenovo and Fujitsu have designs coming soon that will use the same chip Apple asked Intel to build for the MacBook Air, according to sources familiar with their plans.
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InfoWorld - Users looking for the best possible display screen on a notebook PC might want to check out a new offering from Asustek Computer&#160;due out in early March.
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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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Intel Corp. expects its first-generation WiMax chips to spawn devices for wireless broadband end-users that cost less than $200 and won&#39;t require a visit
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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Intel Corp.  detailed  plans on Tuesday to team up with Asustek Computer Inc.  (2357.TW), the world&#39;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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With "easy" in mind, Asustek and Intel have teamed on a 7-inch, low-cost notebook that could even be a challenge to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC.
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Intel has shrunk another processor that will be incorporated into new ultrathin laptops, possibly creating competition for the processor it developed for the MacBook Air ultrathin laptop.Laptop vendors Lenovo and Fujitsu will include Intel&#39;s low-voltage Core 2 Duo SL7100 LV chip in their upcoming laptops, which are expected to hit the market soon.Like the Core 2 Duo processor specially developed for Apple&#39;s MacBook Air notebook, Intel shrunk the new processor to make it 60 percent smaller than standard-sized processors belonging to Intel&#39;s Merom family, according to Connie Brown, an Intel spokeswoman. The chip is manufactured using the 65-nanometer process like other Merom processors.Though the shrink size is the same, the SL7100 LV chip consumes less power and operates at a slower speed. It will operate at 1.2GHz with 4MB of cache. It uses 12 watts of power, according to processor details provided by Intel. The Core 2 Duo processor for MacBook Air uses 20 watts of power while operating at 1.6GHz to 1.8GHz.The new processor was developed independently of the MacBook Air processor, Brown said. &quot;These [SL7100 LV processors] are similar but not identical to the Apple processor,&quot; Brown said. The MacBook Air processor was specially developed to meet Apple&#39;s needs and is also available to other PC makers, Brown said.Lenovo will include the Core 2 Duo SL7100 LV processor in a new notebook, according to specifications published on the Best Buy Web site, which lists specifications of 2GB of RAM, a 64GB solid-state drive, and a 13.3-inch screen. The laptop is the ThinkPad X300, according to posts at numerous tech-enthusiast Web sites.Declining to comment on the ThinkPad X300 posts, Lenovo spokesman Raymond Gorman said that the company will be &quot;announcing a new ThinkPad by the end of the first quarter that we believe will continue our tradition of innovation and function.&quot;Fujitsu will include the SL7100 LV in its ultraportable LifeBook P8010 laptop, which includes a 12.1-inch screen, a DVD-RW drive, and wireless and wired networking, according to a document filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The laptop is due to ship in the U.S. this month and will be available starting at $1,699 on Fujitsu&#39;s Web site starting Tuesday, according to a company spokeswoman.Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Intel&#39;s development of the Core 2 Duo chip for its MacBook Air an engineering feat during a keynote at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January.Intel has publicly talked about developing chips with smaller form factors, including at the Intel Developer Forum last year, when it said it would shrink chips by up to 60 percent for its next-generation Montevina mobile platform, which will include the new Penryn processors manufactured using the 45-nm process.
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Nonprofit and chipmaker have faced off over low-cost laptops in the past, but they're coming together to bring PCs to kids.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp.'s dual-core strategy for mobile processors became a little clearer this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, but questions remain about the company's plans for bringing dual-core designs to its desktop and low-end server chips.