Minister calls Intel to set-up fab in India; unveils 'Centrino Duo'

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Intel Corporation has
unveiled 'Centrino Duo' mobile technology for a new generation of laptops.
With key components designed in India, the new platform is aimed at advancing
the emerging digital lifestyle at home, work, and on the go. “Manufacturing
has been a dream of the country since 1947. And when it comes to IT, we are well
known for software services across the world and it's good for us to have IT
manufacturing base as well. It's our dream to have Intel setting up semi
conductor manufacturing base in India. We are ready to provide extra mile to
them if they intend to do so,” Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister of Telecom and
Information Technology stated this while unveiling Intel's new generation
mobility 'Centrino duo'.

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With key components
designed in India, the new platform is aimed at advancing the emerging digital
lifestyle at home, work, and on the go, Intel said in a statement. About 500
members of the Intel India Development Center have significantly contributed to
the Centrino Duo mobile technology platform. Since June 2004, the team has been
working to help achieve smaller form factor, more battery life and less power
consumption.

Key Intel people and IT
Minister line up on the dias to answer queries from the media during the
launch of Centrino Duo platform. In the pic from left is: Amar Babu,
Director, Sales & Marketing, South Asia, Intel; Anand Chandrasekhar,
VP & GM, Sales & Marketing Group, Intel; Dayanidhi Maran, IT
Minister; Frank Jones, MD, Intel India; Ram Vasantha, Director, Mobility
Group, Intel India Development Center.

“Intel is focused on creating an innovative mobile
computing platform that ushers in a new era of working, playing and living,”
said Anand Chandrasekhar, Senior VP and GM-Sales and Marketing Group, Intel
Corporation. “The Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology platform developed in
India, creates a new leap in how people work and play, taking advantage of a new
generation of uses and

experiences.”

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