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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
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Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »October 17, 2006 — CIO —
Intel showed off two notebooks based on its low-cost reference design on Tuesday at its Developer Forum in Taipei. The PCs are aimed at poor countries as part of a five-year, US$1 billion global program meant to ensure nobody is left behind in the digital age.
The latest notebook reference design is aimed at Taiwan, which is an emerging but by no means poor economy. The device is orange, comes with a shoulder strap built on and is meant for school-age children.
Earlier this year, Intel showed off the first model based on its low-cost reference design. The computer, in its own Intel blue, is aimed at India, Africa, Brazil and other areas. It’s already being used at a pilot program in a school in Nigeria, and coincides with the company’s WiMax initiative for wireless broadband.
"How do you connect the next billion people to the Internet? Not with fiber, not with wires—it’s going to be WiMax," said John Antone, Intel’s sales and marketing manager for Asia, during a news briefing at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei.
A number of developing countries have found that building wireless networks is much easier than digging trenches for wire lines, or hanging them on poles. Mobile phones are one example. In China, people with mobile phones already outnumber those with landlines.
The low-cost laptop design is part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which aims to create affordable hardware, train teachers so they can educate their students, and build wireless Internet capability in developing and emerging countries.
The laptop PCs being designed for developing countries are based on an Intel reference design. The design includes wireless Internet functions that can be tweaked for each market by an assortment of companies. Intel executives would not say which companies are making the low-cost laptops, but indicated it was more than just one.
The Intel initiative also appears to compete with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which is led by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC and a cofounder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory. The project has developed a prototype for a $100 laptop computer for use by students in developing countries.
The goal is to offer the laptops in bulk to governments and other education-oriented organizations. The laptop is being manufactured by Taiwan’s Quanta Computer, the world’s largest contract notebook PC maker.
Intel’s low-cost laptops, dubbed "Classmate PCs," will be sold by vendors in developing nations starting in the first quarter of 2007. Intel’s reference design should ensure the price is below $400.