This could be the dealRead the story, Intel opened a 300 Million dollar fund to invest in "Ultrabooks" by this year's holiday shopping season.
https://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-11/intel-opens-300-million-fund-to-back-ultrabook-laptop-push.html
Some of the key points from this, as I see it (FWIW):
- Intel has an investment banking arm
Quote from the article, from the Intel investing arm:
"“The Intel Capital Ultrabook fund will focus on investing in companiesbuilding technologies that will help revolutionize the computingexperience and morph today’s mobile computers into the next ‘must have’device,” said Executive Vice President Arvind Sodhani, who runs IntelCapital Corp., the chipmaker’s investment arm"
and the icing:
The first ultrabooks will appear by the end-of-year holiday shoppingseason, an effort that will require collaboration among the whole PCindustry, Intel said.
The company is working on cutting the amount ofpower its processors use to enable the machines to draw less batterypower, it said.
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Maybe it's a coincidence.. But I got a bit of a spidey sense tingle going on. I'm already pretty much all in OPL (at a number far higher than todays SP). I'd love to see an Intel IB partnership