Intel-Based Galaxy Tab 10.1 From Samsung
Intel-Based Galaxy Tab 10.1 From Samsung by UCStrategies Staff
According to a Reuters report form Friday, Intel is making advances in the tablet market. Samsung has chosen the new Atom Clover Trail+ processor from Intel to power a version of its upcoming Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Android tablet, and the report states that Samsung will release the new ATIV-brand Windows 8 tablets running Intel chips later this month.
The Galaxy Tab family from Samsung at present operates on ARM-based processors by Nvidia, Texas Instruments and Sony’s own Exynos brand, depending on the type of models. The extra Intel-based device to the Galaxy Tab family would be a huge win for Intel; at present the Android tablet series is very popular and selling extremely well.
A range of different Intel chips are used by Samsung for its notebooks and convertible laptops, and this includes the ATIV models for Windows 8; the addition of an Intel-based Android tablet would be the first for the South Korean technology giant.
The Clover Trail+ Atom family was first introduced by Intel at Mobile World Congress 2013 in February. At the centrepiece of the company’s aggressive effort to gather momentum and market share in the tablet and smartphone markets was the new dual-core 32nm design; Intel has previously been dominated by ARM in those markets.
The new CEO at Intel, Brian Krzanich, created a new business unit centered on emerging products in the mobile market, shortly after taking up this position in the company.
The sales director at Woburn, Massachusetts-based Sunnytech, Joe Lore, stated that the extra Atom chip for the Samsung Galaxy Tab series will drive Intel even further, but there is still some way to go until the company is keeping pace at the top of the game.
Sunnytech has experienced good sales of Lenovo’s Windows 8 tables, which operate on Atom chips such as Lynx K3011 and ThinkPad Tablet 2, but Lore is keen to understand if Atom chips will be able to distribute adequate performance for commercial market customers.
Lore said: “For business use, I'm not sure current Atom chips can keep up with customer needs. I think the new Atom chip can probably do better than some of the tablets processors out there now, but the question is will it be good enough for business processes?” (CY) Link