Intel on Tuesday expressed a lot of confidence in its plan to reshape the notebook PC market with Ultrabooks over the next year while offering more details about its smartphone ambitions and talking up its new server-workstation platform code named Romley.
Read moreThe rumor mill can’t seem to make up its mind about when Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips are going to make their official debut. In the past few weeks, we’ve heard about delays, a staggered roll out of new product, and most recently, a rumor that Intel is pulling in the Ivy Bridge curtain-raiser by a week to help its OEM partners get their new Ultrabooks on the market as soon as possible.
Read moreWith Ivy Bridge, this is finally happening. As for convertible or touch screen Ultrabooks, Intel now allows 2 mm (0.078 inch) thicker devices than those without. Intel allows less or equal to 21.0 mm (0.826 inches) for 14-inch systems or bigger and less or equal to 18.0mm (0.708 inch) for smaller than 14-inch systems. With touch screen or convertible, smaller than 14” devices can get to 20 mm (0.787 inch).
Read moreIntel—a global computing firm will unveil one of its latest PC products —the Ultrabook in Kenya and its neigbouring countries before end of next month.
Read moreIntel Q4 revenues came in at US$13.8bn, bringing the company’s full-year revenues for 2011 to US$54bn. CEO Paul Otellini says the technology pipeline is strong, especially in terms of prospects for Intel-powered ultrabooks, tablet computers and smartphones.
Read moreIntel enjoyed a record-setting year in 2011 with double-digit, year-over-year improvements in revenue, net income, and earnings per share. The company, which reported fourth-quarter and fiscal 2011 earnings Thursday, posted its highest-ever full-year sales, profit, EPS, and operating income numbers, president and CEO Paul Otellini said in a call with investors and analysts.
Read moreBased on the report, the new line-up of “Ultrathins” is scheduled for a June 2012 release, following which 20 other models will debut later in the year. Acer, ASUS and HP are said to be the first amongst manufacturers to produce “Ultrathins” based on AMD’s new processor.
Read moreIntel is ramping up its marketing onslaught for slim and sleek Ultrabook laptops, promising at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday that the category will “usher in a new era of computing and make everything else seem like ancient history.”
Read moreIntel has predicted that its new laptop form factor called the ultrabook, which was launched in 2011, will snag a 40% market share by the end of 2012.
Read moreIt’s taken the PC industry a while to reach the next major stage in notebook designs, but 2012 will be an interesting year thanks to ultrabooks.
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