Intel Demos Prototype in India of US$114 Atom Device

From PC World: Intel Thursday showed a prototype of a range of low-cost "nettops' that are to be introduced in the country over the next several months. The devices, will be offered in the country by domestic and multinational PC vendors and local system integrators.

The devices, which run on Intel's new Atom processor, will be priced low, from Indian rupees 5,000, but they will not have a display, a spokeswoman for the company said on Thursday. The plan is that users will be able to use their television sets or other displays in the home with the device, she added.

The demonstration of the new devices in Delhi was part of the launch of a joint industry and government initiative, called "Connected Indians", which aims to increase Internet connectivity in India, so that it reaches a billion Indians.

Intel gave the initiative a "kickstart", by bringing industry, government, and other organizations together on this, but Intel does not run the program, the spokeswoman said.

The Indian government aims to have 500 million Indians connected to the Internet, with more than 100 million broadband connections, and 100 million broadband enabled devices in the field by 2012. The country has a population of over 1.13 billion people.

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