Think the 1.6 pound Apple iPad is a bit too heavy to hold in one hand? Intel showed off a new tablet based on the upcoming Intel Atom Z6xx series Moorestown chipset with GMA 600 graphics last week, and Chippy from UMPC Portal reports that it weighs just 0.9 pounds — or just over half […]
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Intel Atom chips to shrink to 15nm
Intel’s current line of Atom processors are built using a 45 nanometer process. Those chips are pretty small, and the tiny scale actually helps them consume less energy than larger chips. But Intel is thinking smaller. Way smaller. The next-generation of Atom chips is slated to shrink to 32nm, but the company is also planning […]
Neofonie WeTab slated to start selling Sept 21
The Neofonie WeTab is a slate style tablet computer with an 11.6 inch capacitive touchscreen display running a customized version of MeeGo Linux. It has an Intel Atom N450 CPU, WiFi, and Bluetooth and checks a lot of boxes on many folks tablet wish lists. Unfortunately at launch the WeTab will only be available in […]
Dell previews the DUO 10 inch convertible tablet-style notebook
We’ve seen a lot of companies introduce slate-style tablets without physical keyboards over the past few months, but once upon a time the words “tablet computer” brought up a different image — of a laptop with touchscreen display that you could fold down over the keyboard. Despite all the buzz around slates, and the launch […]
OpenPeak OpenTablet 7 gets the hands-on treatment… repeatedly
OpenPeak has been showing off press shots of its OpenTablet 7 for a little while, but this week the company actually brought the tablet out to play at the Intel Developer Forum, where a number of tech journalists and bloggers finally got a chance to play with it. You can check out some hands-on impressions […]
Intel shows off an Atom powered tablet with WiDi wireless display technology
Intel’s WiDi technology (which sounds a bit like “wide eye,” when you pronounce it), is a wireless display technology for streaming video or other content from computer to a big screen TV. To show off the company’s WiDi tech today at the Intel Developer Forum, an Intel rep pulled out a tablet computer with an […]
MeeGo 1.0 netbook, smartphone operating systems demoed – Video
Intel has been showing off the MeeGo operating system at the Intel Developer Forum in China this week. MeeGo is the next generation of Moblin Linux (with a little help from the Maemo project), and it’s optimized for netbooks and other products with Intel Atom processors. In the first video below, you can see MeeGo […]