Intel: 35 Atom Tablets Coming in 2011, Atom Smartphones are Delayed

From DailyTech: Determined not to be left behind as society transitions towards a more mobile computing paradigm, Intel vowed to deliver strong entries to the tablet and smartphone sectors. At a Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference, it delivered an update on its progress. Long story short, things are looking good on the tablet front, but not so good on the smartphone front.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini's big news was that 35 tablets powered by Intel's Atom processor will launch next year. Describing the tablet platforms, he states:

"We have two flavors of products. One carries our PC legacy, the codename is Oak Trail. This is for the Windows environment. That's important for people who want the advantage of PC peripheral compatibility. All the printers in the world work, all the USB drivers in the world work. Any PC peripheral will work perfectly well with Oak Trail. [It is a] very solid, high-performance, low-power version of Atom.

We have an even more optimized [Atom] version called Moorestown. For people who want the most lightweight, longest battery life, thinnest machine. It doesn't carry the PC compatibility. It's got the x86 instruction set, so Internet compatibility is there, but we're not worrying about legacy support [in Windows]."

Oak Trail and Moorestown are both four-chip designs -- a power management chip, a wireless I/O chip, and North/South Hubs. They share identical North Hub chips, with both having a Lincroft system-on-a-chip up north. The Lincroft SoC includes one or more Silverthorne-derivative Atom cores, an Intel GMA 600 graphics core (OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 2.1, OpenVG 1.1, 400MHz), a memory controller, and video encode/decode units. The entire chip is produced on a 45 nm process.

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