In news that should come as a surprise to nobody, Intel is getting ready to push its new low power Atom Oak Trail platform. I suspect we’ll see a number of tablets, netbooks, and related devices based on the new chipset at CES in January. Now the folks at DigiTimes are giving us a bit of a teaser, suggesting that Acer, Asus, Dell, Samsung, and Toshiba will all have Oak Trail-based tablets ready to launch in the first quarter of 2011.
DigiTimes can be a bit hit or miss with their information, but the site’s news usually comes from industry sources in Taiwan who are in a position to know things, since they’re the ones building the computers.
The site also claims that HP has tapped OEM Inventec to build its upcoming tablet running webOS software. Inventec could be tasked with producing as many as 6 or 7 million units. There’s no word on what kind of hardware these tablets will have, but it’s likely that they’ll use ARM-based chips, like most Palm webOS smartphones.
via SlashGear
About time Intel released something much better than the Z5xx CPUs,
which are a major disappointment.
Inventec devices have been a disappointment as far as reliability, so this doesn’t bode well for HP products made by them. Come to think of it, the numerous HP products I’ve owned have been terrible
hardware wise. My dm3 laptop died after a few months. My HP
inkjet printers have been very fragile. The sheet feeder on my
LaserJet All-in-one broke after only a few uses, and its scanner also
failed after very little use.
I won’t be buying any HP product anytime soon if I can help it.