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Report: 32 Windows 8 Tablets to Launch in 2012

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:55:16 -0500

Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, Acer, Lenovo, Intel, Windows 8
Apple spawned the media tablet market with the launch of the original iPad a couple of years back. Two iPad updates and countless Android tablets later, its viselike grip over the tablet market remains intact. To add insult to injury for its rivals, market research firm IDC recently predicted that it...

Intel to release Medfield-based tablet for education

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:23:40 -0500

Tablets, Intel
Intel and Lenovo have launched a 10.1-inch Classmate PC -- a ruggedized, classroom-oriented low-cost notebook based on the Atom N2600 dual-core processor -- and Intel is now planning a tablet PC along the same lines, currently code-named "Storybook." The tablet is said by DigiTimes to feature a 10-inch...

HP reportedly planning Windows 8 tablets using Intel and Qualcomm processors

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:46:57 -0600

Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, HP, Intel, Windows 8
HP CEO Meg Whitman recently told investors that the company will be shipping Windows 8 products by the end of the year, and now CNET is reporting some possible details about its tablet plans. According to the site, HP is working on at least three different Windows 8 tablets, powered by chips from Intel...

Intel-powered Windows 8 tablets to struggle for sub-$600 pricing?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:13:08 -0600

Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, Intel, Windows 8
Microsoft has a big battle ahead to overcome the overwhelming popularity of the iPad on the tablet computing front, and its Intel-powered slates might be starting at a distinct disadvantage if a DigiTimes report is to be believed. The site indicates that neither Intel nor Microsoft are willing to cut...

Motorola and Intel hold hands for multi-year, multi-device partnership, shipments start 2H 2012

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:58:00 -0600

Cell Phones, Tablets, Intel, Motorola
Well, look who just showed up at Intel's CES 2012 keynote? Motorola Mobility's own Sanjay Jha just grabbed a bit of the limelight -- long enough to announce a multi-year, multi-device agreement that should see Intel's Medfield chips powering Moto's hardware (the second announced behind Lenovo) in the...

Intel Android smartphone and tablet prototypes tested by MIT, looking promising

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:39:02 -0600

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Tablets, Intel, Google, Android
Intel's 32nm Medfield system-on-chip has been teased all year as the platform for the company's big leap into mobile devices, and now we finally have some real hands-on feedback to report about it. The MIT Technology Review team was allowed to have a brief play with a pair of Medfield prototypes running...

Intel developing new tablet chip

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:48:01 -0600

Tablets, Intel
Intel is working on a new CPU line that is designed exclusively for tablets.

It looks as though Intel's upcoming mobile chip, codenamed Medfield, will be making its way to smartphones but steering clear of slates with this new tablet chip taking its place.

Digitimes is reporting that the...

Intel to show tablets, ultrabooks with Windows 8

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:06:47 -0500

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, Intel, Windows 8
Intel plans to show Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 on tablets based on new Atom processors, and on ultrabooks, at both the Intel Developer Forum and Microsoft's Build conference this week, according to a source familiar with Intel's plans.

Intel will show off Windows 8 ultrabooks and other devices...