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ARM processors might have an early lead in the tablet market—a lot of PC makers have opted for ARM for their debuts into the tablet PC segment—but it’s too early to dismiss the potential of the Santa Clara chip maker for tablet PCs.
ntel’s Atom processor rules the netbook market but tablets are not netbooks and manufacturers are not keen on surfing the Intel-Windows wave for tablets. Intel has captivated the netbook market, which will grow at a rate of 30% in 2010 according to Gartner. There success points are the reliability of the Intel Atom, their small form factor, and their cost-effectiveness.

But netbook sales are already feeling the pinch from tablet PCs, explains Andre Eisner, Retrevo’s director in his blog: “It looks like consumers who are struggling with the decision to buy an iPad or a netbook are overwhelmingly leaning toward an iPad, with 78 percent in that group [leaning toward] the iPad.”
Intel has a strong hold in the PC space and is now pushing its x86 architecture into tablet PCs. In May they unveiled the Moorestown chips based on the Atom Z6 series processor, targetting handheld devices like smartphones and tablets. Moorestown chips have low power consuming, single-core Atom processors running between 1.2GHz and 1.9GHz, plus a graphic processor core capable of rendering high-definition videos.

Intel has also announced a low voltage Oak Trail Atom platform that is believed to consume only half the power of Atom’s current Pine Trail platform. It has support for 1080p high definition video playback and HDMI output. The Oak Trail System-on-Chips (SoC) is expected to run Windows 7, Google Android and MeeGo.

Intel and Microsoft are pushing a lot of PC makers to showcase tablets PC based on the Oak Trail platform in the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in September. But Oak Trail isn’t likely to hit market shelves until 2011.

Nearly 30 tablets have already embraced the Intel Atom, says Stacy Smith. “At Computex last month[June 2010], there were over 30 varieties of tablets shown based upon Atom configurations. The advantage of Intel in this segment is you can run a number of operating systems: Windows, Android, Chrome, you can run MeeGo or the other versions of Linux,”

One of the reasons why the Apple iPad has been so popular is the Apps Store. Intel has announced an Atom app store to boost the popularity of netbooks and tablets based on the chip.

There are some cool tablets featured on Aprogreen which are leading this trend towards tablets with Intel processors. The 1.6GHz Intel ATOM N270 powered 10.2-inch touch panel PC can run Linux or Windows XP Home/Vista. Another model, the 10.2-inch multi-touch mobile tablet PC also runs Linux or Windows XP Home/Vista on a 1.6GHz Intel N270 processor.

The other Intel powered tablet PC includes the 10.2-inch single touch tablet with a 1.6GHz Intel ATOM N270 powered tablet PC; it comes without an OS though it supports Vista-Tablet\XP-Tablet\Windows 7\Linux. It has a whopping 160GB hard drive (putting the iPad’s max. of 64GB to shame) and 1GB DDR2 memory. It has multi-touch variant as well.

Intel may be a little late to the party, but it has a lot of potential to appeal to the tablet market.

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