Intel: Striving For Relevance In Tablet Arena
The tablet craze that has all but completely infected the mobile computing world seems to have left Intel a little behind. Mostly powered by low-power (and in some cases high-performance) ARM-based chips, you don’t see many Intel offerings, the only ones coming from Windows 7 tablets that, in all fairness, don’t offer to the masses what the Android tablets do – that is, light-weight, thin and touch-friendly. DigiTimes reports that Intel plans to change this – or, at least, sneak back into relevance, as they will be showcasing a number of tablet devices at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing next month. The company is also supposedly working with Taiwanese manufacturers Inventec and Compal. Intel chips can run a variety of tablet OSes, MeeGo Linxux to Google Android (a version for x86) as well as Windows 7, which is not really a tablet OS but touch-friendly UI’s have been made. Intel is supposed to be already working with 6-8 notebook makers on Android tablets – will these be powered by Intel Atom series processors?
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