Intel Pledges $300 Million for Thin Laptops

By IDG News Service, PCWorld Aug 15, 2011 11:00 AM

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Intel plans to invest $300 million over the next few years in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks. Ultrabooks are Intel's name for an emerging class of super-thin laptop, meant to compete with Apple's smash-hit Macbook Air and the Sony Vaio Z.

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