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Well, it looks like the Intel Developer Forum might be a bit more subdued next week than usual, with the chipmaker cutting its revenue projections for the third quarter, which ends this month. In a statement announced before Wall Street opened this morning, Chipzilla warned investors that its sales in the third quarter would …

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  1. Nate Amsden

    i laugh

    every time I see the HP ulrabook commerical

    https://ssl.www8.hp.com/in/en/ad/ultrabooks/intel.html

    "Ultrabook™. Inspired by Intel^H^H^H^H^HApple. Perfected by HP."

  2. Narg

    PC's are not dying...

    The PC market is just not growing like it used to. Millions of PC are sold each month still, and continue to sell. But if it's not double digit growth, then the investors call it dead. Stupid greedy investor types...

    And, Nate, no, Apple did not invent the Ultrabook. Much less 99% of everything else they claim.

  3. Edward Ashley
    Joke

    Windows 8

    Luckily Windows 8 will make the masses want to "upgrade" ;)

  4. naive

    What about $7 Allwinner A10

    It are not only be the tablets that will make Intels life difficult. The Chinese started making mini PC's with Allwinner A10 CPU's. The A10 chips cost $7 each, run Adroid 4.0 with 1-1.5GHz, perfect to run youtube and a webbrowser on the TV or as a cheap workstation.

    Compare this to the prices of Intel CPU's. Upgrading the 2.2GHz T4400 CPU in my 3 yr old Lenovo SL510 to one with VT and a few more Hz would cost several times more than the market value of the device. The prices Intel charges to consumer for CPU's are artificial prices.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    There is a rumored worldwide economic recession going on

    Intel thought they were immune to it, but they are learning otherwise. Their joke of an Ultrabook concept is a total failure with them having to buy every sale with huge amonts of marketing dollars.

    1. Robert E A Harvey
      Coat

      Joke of an ultrabook

      Quite. Had they mandated a decent screen and not tried to pitch it at 5 times netbook pricing I'd have bought one by now. And that would have added 1 to the sales...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    Bill Moggridge

    Neither Intel nor Apple invent the ultrabook or laptop. That honour goes to Bill Moggridge who died today

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/early-laptop-designer-bill-moggridge-dies-at-69-computer-used-by-military-nasa-in-1980s/2012/09/09/8f6b7c90-faab-11e1-a65a-d6e62f9f2a5a_story.html

    1. Philippe
      Stop

      Re: Bill Moggridge

      Bill, however good he was, did not invent the Superslim laptop, he designed and patented the Laptop as we know it today, with a screen folding on top of the Keyboard.

      The copyright for the name "Ultrabook" is owned by Intel, and the Patent for a super slim laptop in the style of the Macbook Air, has been deposed by Apple but hasn't been approved yet.

  8. Goat Jam
    Paris Hilton

    lost revenues

    Since when does an incorrect guess == "lost revenues"

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