HomeNewsIntel's Oak Trail tablets to be unveiled

Intel’s Oak Trail tablets to be unveiled

There are several companies getting ready with their Oak Trail processor based tablets, and these include Acer, Asus and MSI; but most of the tablets first off the mark will be from Chinese companies.

Tablet PCs based on Intel’s Oak Trail are likely to be displayed next week in the Computex Trade Show in Taipei.

The name of the processor, Oak Trail, is actually a code name for the Intel Atom Z670 processor designed for tablets. The ARM based processors have grabbed large market share among mobile devices.

The processor has a video decoder and graphics core, apart from the CPU. The Oak Trail processors are likely to offer longer battery life compared to earlier Atom chips.

Fujitsu was one of the earliest companies which adopted this processor and the company is now taking pre-orders for its Oak Trail tablets. The other important vendors that are coming up with Oak Trail tablets are Acer and Asus, but they do not intend to show their tablets at this event.

Acer’s Oak Trail tablet is likely to run on 3.0 and could hit the market by July. Apart from tablets running on Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Acer is also exploring alternatives like MeeGo. Another Oak Trail tablet, from Micro-Star International (better known as MSI,) is expected to arrive by the end of 2011.

Intel has been extremely supportive of the vendors launching tablets based on Oak Trail and is also generous with technical support and subsidies as well. Since the Oak Trail tablets will support Windows 7, the tablets built on this platform may be more readily adopted in the security conscious environments of the enterprise segment.

Most of the tablets on display at Computex in Taipei, however, are likely to come from lesser-known Chinese companies, and many of them will look like the iPad but the sophistication within will be missing. However, people will still be able to watch movies and browse the web &#151 which suffices for most entry level users.

For the latest tech news and reviews, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel.

RELATED STORIES

Latest News

Crypto News