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AMD is manufacturing chipsets for lean laptops that would slash the prices up to $200 less compared to an Intel-powered Ultrabook, in a report by Digitimes. AMD is optimistic to bring down Intel’s Ultrabooks on cost and June is where AMD will take advantage to launch, a platform for slim and light laptops (Ultrathin), actually [...]

Right, expect a few new twists (ahem, Dell), Intel’s education-focused Classmate PC has learned a few new tricks this year at CES 2012.     Intel has unveiled a renovated Classmate PC line that runs on Atom Cedar Trail CPU and is allegedly to give long-lasting battery life (about 10 hours from a single charge), [...]

Take or leave it, there’s no doubt that tablets don’t have the capacity to handle the same thoroughness (including similar efficiency levels) compared to a complete laptop, and to stress on that,  Intel’s new Ultrabook is using that very position to endorse the Ultrabook type as a whole. Since we’re just left with a few [...]

Intel is set to increase its lead over its competitors despite a fall in sales of its Atom chips intended for the moribund netbook business, Intel Corp in the Q3 managed to widen its control position in the international microprocessor market on the muscle of its corporate sales.   Intel in the Q3 made about [...]

Apparently, Intel still won’t budge and just won’t give PC makers such as Acer the CPU price subsidy necessary to launch sub-$1000 ultrabooks. And even though people like Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin appear confident about future sales of ultrabooks (compared with tablet PCs), it seems that the whole industry is a bit cautiously optimistic [...]