Intel targets cheapo chips for dirt cheap notebooks

CHIP GIANT Intel will introduce cheap-as-chips, er, chips in the third quarter of this year, according to Taiwanese wire Digitimes.

The chips are part of a reference design called “Shelton” and will include Diamondville microprocessors with only eight watts total power consumption, the wire reports.

The Diamondgeezer single core CPUs clock at 1.6GHz and use a 533MHz system bus, with OEMs able to knock out notebooks at between $300 and $500.

The OEMs are already on the case, so to speak, says Digitimes. µ