| | By Mike Magee @ Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:28 AM
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| | Tom Rampone is Mr Channel@Intel and translatres it into products that reach customers through local partners like distributors. He won't tell us what the gross margins of his distriburs are. Intel's distributiopn channel represents 25 per cent of total Intel shipments and is a significant part of its business, with 220,000 channel partners.
'We have north of 50,000 channel partners in America, 50,000 in Latin America, 50,000 in Europe and 10,000 in the PRC,' said Rampone.
Rampone said that Intel has some products it wants to show to the media.Intel is doing a high end product which will, he said, perform graphics at the speed of light, and showing four core, eight threaded performance. The motherboard supports Nehalem and Mr Rampone seems to believe the INQster has good headlines.
Surely some mistake.
Rampone said the Atom processor will be attached to displays, application specifics and security and fixed function advices. Intel is introducing the D945GCLF2, a dual core Atom CPU. Intel can offer mainstream products in a mini-ITX chassis. This product will ship in September, he said.
On the netbook side Intel has focused on education and introduced two generations of Classmate PCs, and customers think this product is really beginning to reach and penetrate into schools and helping to cross the digital divide.
Intel is working on a new Classmate design which Rampone refused to pass around. Features will in clude a touch capability and a tablet mode. Kids will be able to be creative in a natural style. Ramponje said it's not an announcement but just a 'sneak preview'.
Intel is getting rid of old boxes and introducing new ones with an emphasis on green, by which Rampone doesn't mean AMD coloured boxes but ones that will produce less waste. Tesco, take note. X
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