14 DAY TRIAL // Intel will release a new tablet system-on-chip device in 2014, one that will bear the same Atom brand as before, but will be quite a bit better than the current platform.
The improved SoC will be called Cherry Trail-T and will be designed on the 14nm process.
It will be a quad-core unit with 2.7 GHz clock, 8 GB DDR3-1600 memory support, 64-bit data width, memory bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s and support for Windows 8.1 and Android Key Lime Pie operating system or newer.
For the sake of comparison, the ValleyView-T / Bay Trail-T is a quad-core with 2.4 GHz clock, 22nm process and 4 GB top RAM capacity (DDR3-1067 memory). It has a bandwidth of just 8.5 to 17.5 GB/s.
That said, Cherry Trail-T will also boast eDP v1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 and support for 4K x 2K resolution HDMI streaming, although each tablet maker will have the final say here.