In his keynote address during the summit, Bill Siu, vice president and general manager of Intel's channels platform group, said the goal of providing PC access to another billion people cannot be addressed by low-cost devices like PDAs and even mobile phones.

'There should be no compromise on technologies to these countries,' Siu said, pointing out to a full-featured PC as a better alternative.

Intel introduced its new low-cost PC, which comes in a small-form factor roughly half the size of an ordinary desktop PC, in Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria, and Egypt and will soon launch it in at least 10 more countries, said Findlay.