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Dual-Core Intel Atom Powered Netbook Available From Today

Dual -core Atom? That’s right and the netbook running with that processor start shipping today. There are plenty of notebook available from Acer, Asus, Fujitsu and etc. Tthe new dual-core Intel® Atom™ processor N550 is said to have greater performance with same battery life as the single core Intel® Atom™ processor N450. More on that available on the press release below.

Press release

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2010 – Intel Corporation announced today that a dozen of new netbooks based on its new mobile dual-core Intel® Atom™ processors are available in stores today. The netbooks – available now and through the end of the year from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba – enable new levels of support for applications like games, as well as Adobe Flash* technology for access to a number of Web pages including online hotel booking systems and multimedia sites such as YouTube* and Hulu*.

“Acer strives to continually improve on our customers’ total mobile experience, whether it is increased responsiveness or extended Internet interactivity through longer battery life,” said David Lee, associate vice president of Acer’s Mobile Computing Business Unit. “We are pleased to select dual-core Intel Atom processors for Acer netbooks, helping to empower netbook users achieve even more – both at work and at leisure.”

With the dual-core Intel® Atom™ processor N550, consumers can enjoy Internet access on the go with a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor, DDR3 memory support and similar great battery life as the single-core Intel® Atom™ processor N450.

“In their short history, the netbook category has experienced impressive growth,” said Erik Reid, director of marketing for mobile platforms at Intel. “Having shipped about 70 million Intel Atom chips for netbooks since our launch of the category in 2008, there is obviously a great market for these devices around the world.”

New netbooks based on dual-core Intel Atom chips arrive in stores today and are available at a variety of consumer-friendly price points. For more information, visit www.intel.com/products/processor/atom.

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Intel is Looking For Brilliant Minds

Intel dropped ‘looking for brilliant minds’ email recently, which may signal that they’re actively looking for some new blood now. Or is it just a piece of email meaning nothing? Before I confuse you further, that is just an automated email to whoever that have registered to their job portal before.

Well, it’s been almost 4 years since my registration. The email comes with a little bit surprise, as Intel has the history of not sending email to registrants in their job portal database, even when they’re actively hiring. I can’t recall if I’ve ever received any emails from them before. That may have changed now, when bright employee is hard to to get nowadays. I’ll leave whatever motive behind the email is, but if you’re looking for jobs with them, this piece of email hopefully helps you to land the job of your dream.

Intel is looking for brilliant minds

Greetings!

At Intel, we are looking for individuals like you with the right mix of education, skills and experience to help us transform people’s lives through new technology.

Get your profile noticed! Update your profile and take advantage of new features we’ve added to the ‘Job Roles & Locations’ section of your candidate profile. For each Job Category, you now have the ability to select specific Roles which align to your experience. Your updates will make it easier for our Recruiters to match you to our job opportunities.

Recommended Next Steps

  • Update your candidate profile and use the new features.
  • Explore job opportunities at the Jobs at Intel website.
  • Meet, connect, interact, and exchange ideas with real Intel employees around the world. We’ve created Your Job Network where you can explore life at Intel and select the social networking options that work best for you.

We thank you for your continued interest in Intel and wish you success in your job search.

Regards,
Intel Corporation

Admin 18 March 2010 Jobs & Career , , , No Comments

HP and Intel warehouse sale this weekend @ PJ

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HP & Intel are jointly organized warehouse sale this coming weekend. With gloomy economy outlook right now, such sale is the best opportunity to get yourself a new computers/devices with bargain price.

Please note that the first day of sale (20th March) is open exclusively for HP employees, Citibank / Maybank cardholders, media and students only.

Date :     20* – 22 March 09
Time :     10am – 8pm
Venue :     3 Two Square, Section 14, Petaling Jaya Malaysia (MAP)

Admin 19 March 2009 gadget & hardware , , , , No Comments

Intel shutting down 2 plants in Penang – Switched to Kulim

Intel shutting down 2 plants in Penang Switched to KulimThe top news headlines on the past few days is obviously the plan to close 2 Intel plants, PG6 and PG7 in Penang. Although there are no layoff as reported, but it is come as a surprise to many especially on the eve of Chinese New Years.

The move comes few days after Intel reported its 4Q earning, with net come drop significantly to only $234 millions,  down 88 percent against Q3 and down 90 percent against Q4 2007.

In addition to these 2 plants in Penang, one plant in Cavite, Philippines will be closed as well. Intel will also halt production at Fab 20, fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Ore for older 200mm wafer fabrication and wafer production operations at the D2 facility in Santa Clara, Calif.pg logo Intel shutting down 2 plants in Penang Switched to Kulim

With this planned closure, Intel who is very synonym with Penang Free Trade Zone (FTZ), has switched to Kulim’s plants as the major manufacturing hub on this region. Kulim which is located 38.7 km away from Bayan Lepas, Penang has seen further investment from Intel on recent years.

It is blow to Penang state goverment which has been working hard to retain current investment and at the same time attract more FDI investment to this small island. Looks like Intel employees are the first major casualty of global economy crisis in Malaysia.

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Intel-powered Classmate PC for students in Terengganu

If I’m still studying, I wish that I’m attending school in Terengganu.(Terengganu is an oil rich state in Peninsular Malaysia). That is because none other than, there will be a notebook for me.

If you haven’t already known, Terengganu state government has allocated some millions of $$$ to provide Intel-powered Classmate notebook to each form 5 students, approximately 25,000 beginning next year (pst, for Cencurut, do you have form 5 kid?

Plus, the Classmate notebook will contain text books which has been transformed to PDF format with cooperation from DBP (Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka). So no more, heavy bag misery or ‘sakit badan’ symptom due to that..

There will also be a new facility being setup in Terengganu, with manufacturing capacity of 10,000 units per month to assemble the Classmate notebook. With this capacity, in a year, the whole Terengganu’s student will be equipped with notebook. I wish that it will be expanded to other states as well (if there is budget).

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Photo credit to Utusan MOU ceremony

What is Classmate

What is Intel-powered Classmate PC? I’ve touched the base of it before. Intel-powered Classmate notebook is a low cost notebook, mainly targeted for student and low-end market like 3rd world countries. The objective is to reduce the cost-of-ownership of notebooks, hence increase the computer literacy among the communities all over the world.

Sibling of OLPC and sharing the same vision, Classmate has a slight advantage over its other siblings, with the backup of electronic ‘big boy’ Intel, plus the better hardware and software.

Since its first inception 2 years ago, it is now on its 3rd version, even though the latest one has yet to be in production. Among the enhancements are, notably bigger hard drive, powered by power-saver Intel Atom and having built-in camera. More below.

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Version

Judging on the photo by Utusan, most likely, students will get the second generation Classmate. So this what you get (if you’re a form 5 student in Terengganu). You’ll get a notebook with built-in camera, decent processor, bigger hard drive (refer more above) and many more.

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The 3rd version of Classmate is not yet available even on the ClassmatePC website, but this videos should provide you ideas about how nice the version 3 is. Among the features that I bet will sure gain a huge attention is the touch screen, transformable to tablet PC and etc.

How much.

FTEC, Classmate distributor in Malaysia which is re branding Classmate to be SmartBook sells the first and 2nd version for RM999 & RM1299 respectively. It is relatively expensive compared to Asus IEEE or Acer One who has superior design and competitively priced.

Report from NST said that each notebook will be sold to state government for RM999, which is a steal as compared to what is available in the market. This is including the software. Terengganu has allocated some 35 million for this project.

Some photos below

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Classmate third version in tablet mode. More photos from DeviceGuru

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Colourful casing

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