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Title: Intel, Asustek plan low-cost laptop - Reuters Post by: Mark David on June 14, 2007, 08:58:06 AM Intel Corp.has detailed plans to team up with Asustek Computer Inc., the world's largest maker of computer motherboards, to make a notebook PC that would cost as little as $200 and be aimed at mass markets in developing countries. Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has distributed laptops to children in developing countries for years, but has yet to put them into the kind of mass production planned by another group, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC). Most recently, Intel has launched its Classmates initiative, which aims to ship a modest 1,230 low-cost PCs to governments in Asia this year, mostly in trial arrangements.
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