The Acer Iconia A1-830 is an Android tablet with a 7.9 inch display, an Intel Atom processor and a starting price of just $149. It’s due to hit the streets in the first quarter of 2014, and the tablet has just made its required stop at the FCC on the way to store shelves. This isn’t […]
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Product roadmap: New Intel Bay Trail chips for tablets on the way
Intel currently offers a handful of Bay Trail chips aimed at tablets, including the Atom Z3770, Z3740, and Z3740D. These chips are used in tablets including the Asus Transformer Book T100, Dell Venue 8 Pro, Acer Iconia W4, and others. Soon Intel could have a few new low-power Atom chips aimed at tablets with 8 […]
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Bay Trail tablets are cheap because Intel’s footing the bill
Wonder why you can get a Windows 8 tablet with an Intel Atom processor for less than the price of a Windows RT model with an ARM chip? At least part of the reason is that Intel is subsidizing the cost of building Bay Trail tablets until the economies of scale bring the actual price […]
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Android tablets with Intel Bay Trail chips coming in Q2, 2014
PC makers launched the first Windows tablets and notebooks powered by Intel Bay Trail processors in late 2013. Next up, according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, are Android tablets with Bay Trail chips. He says we should start to see those in the second quarter of 2014 — although at least one device maker has already introduced […]
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HP Omni 10 Windows tablet now available for $350 and up
The HP Omni 10 is a tablet with an Intel Atom Z3770 quad-core processor, a 10 inch, full HD display, and Windows 8.1 software. HP introduced the tablet in October, and now it’s available for purchase in the US. While the Omni 10 has a list price of $399, Office Depot is currently offering the […]
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Intel Atom roadmap: 64-bit smartphone chips in 2014
Intel is outlining plans for its next-gen chips for smartphones and tablets… as well as the generation after that. Starting in the second half of 2014, Intel plans to start offering 64-bit mobile chips based on 14nm designs and featuring next-gen graphics. By 2015, Intel plans to move onto an entirely new versatile chip called […]
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Intel Atom Z3000 “Bay Trail” chips coming soon to a tablet near you
Intel’s new tablet chips are ready to go, and they’re designed to offer longer battery life and better performance. The Intel Atom Z3000 series chips are 22nm processors based on the company’s Silvermont architecture. The new chips, code-named “Bay Trail” will show up in Android and Windows 8.1 tablets in the coming months, and Intel […]
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Intel Atom Bay Trail benchmark test shows a big performance boost
Intel has been promising that it’s next-generation of low-power Atom processors for tablets would offer better performance while using less power than any Atom chips to date. Now Intel engineer Francois Piednoël is proving the point. He’s posted benchmark results for an upcoming Intel Atom Bay Trail processor called the Atom Z3770. It’s a quad-core chip […]
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Tablet prototype with Intel Bay Trail CPU, 2560 x 1440 pixel display (video)
Intel’s next-generation Atom chips are designed to offer up to three times the performance and a big boost in graphics performance over today’s Clover Trail chips. They’re also more efficient than earlier Atom chips, which should lead to tablets, notebooks, and other devices with longer battery life. While Intel has started providing details about its […]
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Intel’s next-gen Celeron, Pentium chips to be based on Atom architecture
Intel plans to shift the way it makes at least some of its Celeron and Pentium chips. For the past few years Intel has used those brands to sell low-end processors based on the same architecture as its higher-end Core chips. But soon you’ll start to find Celeron and Pentium chips based on the same […]