I didn't buy a Centrino willingly, I worked on the P4 - Bob Colwell, former chief architect, Intel
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Intel demos a slew of tablets as it looks to gain the upper hand
CHIPMAKER Intel sought to put clear blue water between itself and its rivals AMD and ARM on Wednesday by playing up its tablet credentials and cross-operating system support.
In a press conference Chipzilla assured its customers that it will help support a wide range of tablets and netbooks suitable for every use case in an initiative it called 'companion computing'.
To ram home the point, Intel executives demoed Atom-powered devices running the Android, Windows and Meego operating systems, as well as various hardware designs including sliders, dual screen machines, detachable screen devices and more.
General manager of netbooks and tablets Doug Davis reiterated the firm's promise to get to 14nm process chips by 2014 at faster than Moore's Law speed and highlighted the low power, high performance advantages of Intel's Medfield, Cedar Trail and Oak Trail families of processors.
Combining software with the silicon hardware is another area where Intel thinks it has an advantage, with the Smart Connect and Rapid Start technologies it announced on Tuesday, as well as Appup, PC Sync and other tools, all touted as ways to make life a lot easier for the end user.
With AMD having thrown its own hat into the tablet ring in a slightly less spectacular fashion this morning, the next year or two is likely to be an interesting time in the tablet market. µ
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Is that you can compare them to OTHER opinionated people and see who tends to be right the most.
Great people make the most mistakes because they try more often. Not specifically talking about The Inquirer, just saying. Thomas Edison had 100s of failures before successfully creating the first light bulb.
Yup. I've been saying this for 18 months: the Inq idiots were bigots when it comes to tablet. Reason being, they think like the scribblers they are. Regular folks see tablets as a damned convenient device that will never be needed for extensive scribbling.
Inq have been real daft on this one.
Fact is, Microsoft and Intel are nowhere in the MID space and never will be. Windows is toast.
Microsoft: "Oh, we'll have Windows <version_that_will_be_okay_honest by 2012."
Intel: "Oh, we can execute 14 nm by 2014 then everything will be fine."
As though the competition will jut stand still and wait for Wintel to catch up. What a frikkin joke. Absolutely love it :-)))))))
Hand me the popcorn, Inq/M$/Intel are at the Loser's Ball, trying on their dirty old dresses, looking for suitors. Arf, arf :-)))
"I thought all the tablets stuff was a fad started by Apple and it would soon be over?? I'm confused.."
You must have just awakened from a year-long nap. None of what Intel has announced today should be a surprise to you if you've been awake. They've been saying these were coming for quite awhile.
The Inquirer should in rality be called "The Opinionator", because they never let a fact get in the way of an opinion.
The problem with biased, irrational dislike of something, is that it leads to biased, irrational opinions which become embarrassing as time progresses, and those opinions, captured for all time in the wayback machine, are exposed for the petty drivel that they are.
I thought all the tablets stuff was a fad started by Apple and it would soon be over?? I'm confused..