The Venezuelan government has signed an agreement with Portugal that will bring one million low-cost notebooks, which are based on the Intel Classmate PC design, to the South American country. In July, Portugal signed an agreement with Intel to bring 500,000 Classmate PCs to that country and now the Portuguese OEM manufacturing those laptops will supply these Intel Atom-based laptops to Venezuela.
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Venezuela
has signed an agreement with Portugal
that will allow the South American country to buy one million low-cost Intel
Classmate PC notebooks from a Portuguese manufacturer.
The agreement between Intel and the governments of Venezuela
and Portugal
now represents the largest deployment …
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University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists…
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Redmond’s Flight Sim guru Phil Taylor takes job with chip giant to help deliver first software titles built around Intel’s first serious effort in years to develop discrete graphics products.
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The fat lady is singing for Transmeta. The company once known for its highly energy-efficient x86-compatible Crusoe and Efficeon microprocessors announced two new licensing deals with Intel today, and then announced that the company was for sale.
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Panasonic is looking to upgrade its line of Toughbook notebooks to encompass several new laptops, including a new ultraportable PC and a tablet all based on new Intel processors. While not as prominent as HP, Dell or Lenovo, Panasonic has been trying to position its Toughbook notebooks as an alternative laptop for everyday business use as well as for vertical markets such as government and health care.
- Panasonic is updating its line of Toughbook notebooks to include a new ultraportable laptop and tablet that will feature some of the latest Intel processors, including a low-volt model.
While not entrenched in the enterprise like Hewlett-Packard, Dell or Lenovo, Panasonic is trying to expand its ru…
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Redmond’s Flight Sim guru Phil Taylor takes job with chip giant to help deliver first software titles built around Intel’s first serious effort in years to develop discrete graphics products.
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Transmeta, which developed a line of low-power processors and eventually morphed into a developer of software-based processors, cut deals with Intel and plans to bow out of the market.
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Canonical, maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical has advanced Linux on both the desktop and server and should be a good fit for the Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Canonical supports several other open-source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart, and by joining, it should be able to support and benefit from other Linux community members in the Linux Foundation, including IBM, Novell, Oracle, Intel, Red Hat and VMware.
- Canonical, maintainer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux
Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of
Linux.
By joining, Canonical can both contribute to and benefit from the foundation
that features many of the Linux community’s leading comp…
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Emma Hughes , Thursday 18 September 2008. 14:18:00
Get them while they’re hot
TOSHIBA HAS ANNOUNCED today the joyous occasion of the arrival of the NB100 – the company’s first netbook product. Toshiba designers have produced the NB100 to be used for either primary or secondary computing purposes. This versatile little netbook will be powered by the Intel Atom CPU and comes with Linux Ubuntu 8.04 or MS Windows XP Home Edition. Wonders never cease for the NB100, as it is also has an energy preserving LED backlight and a reported battery life of up to nearly four hours. Other features include WiFi (802.11 b/g) and a 10/100 Ethernet port, integrated 0.3MP webcam, hard disk storage of up to 120GB and integrated stereo speakers all weighing less than a kilo, so it’s portable as well….
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Sylvie Barak , Friday 12 September 2008. 22:24:00
Sony, Fujitsu Siemens and Benq flip chips
SONY, FUJITSU Siemens and Benq have announced notebooks using hybrid graphics that allow users to “dynamically switch” between Intel’s Centrino 2 integrated graphics and a discrete Nvidia Geforce GPU. The switch can be made without the need to reboot, giving the user the choice of whether to burn up the battery in 3D mode, or idly noodle about in 2D on the Interweb. According to Nvidia, all its Geforce 9M Series GPUs support the hybrid graphics feature, but notebooks have to be specifically designed. Four firms have joined the bandwagon, after guinea pig Acer tested the water. Sony’s new Vaio Z series, Fujitsu Siemens’ Amilo XI 3650 and Benq Joybook’s S42’s all have the feature….
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