The ASUS UX21, that 11.6-inch cake slicer that doubles up as an ultrathin laptop, is coming in September with a price tag of less than $1,000. That's according to the Commercial Times, which cites supplier sources in identifying ASUS' aggressive pricing strategy. Word is that the Taiwanese company is aiming to price the UX21 at 80 to 90 percent of the cost of Apple's competing products, namely the MacBook Air family. Of course, with a second-gen Intel Core i5 (or i7) ...

Press Released: Intel's Maloney Talks Mobile Growth, Industry Opportunities at Computex New Roadmaps Across Intel® Core™ and Atom™ Processor Families to Usher in Next Wave of Laptops and Connected Mobile Devices NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel defines new category of mainstream thin and light mobile computers, called Ultrabook™. Intel aims to shift 40 percent of consumer laptops to the Ultrabook™ by end of 2012. Separately, Intel is accelerating the Atom™ processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year cadence to enable a wider range of optimized solutions for multiple ...