14 DAY TRIAL // A fair number of tablets have come out recently, and while Intel's technology may not have grabbed the majority, the company is by no means daunted, having decided to offer some info on its MeeGo tablet plans.
So far, there have already been a number of tablets based on Intel's Atom platform, but the Oak Trail will be the real game changer, or so Intel is trying to make it look.
Still, while Intel is more or less confident on the hardware side, it does not want to limit itself to just that aspect of the slate market.
As such, it has been working on the tablet version of the MeeGo platform, MeeGo 1.2, and a recent report claims to have discovered when the first products loaded with it are due to debut.
Apparently, June 2011 is the time when such tablets will be officially launched, but actual availability is unlikely to ramp up before the third quarter.
A single-core Oak Trail central processing unit is seen as the reference platform, though it is more than likely that MeeGo models will be preceded by others.
Machines pre-loaded with Windows 7, as well as models running the Gingerbread and Honeycomb versions of Google's Android OS, have and will keep showing up.
The report mentioned above further states that, considering how June is seen as the time of formal announcements, Computex Taipei may very well end up as the event hosting the various tablet releases.
After that happens, the Santa Clara, California-based company will have to finish setting up the App up center, an online application 'market'. Some developers have already submitted programs of the sort.
Basically, if all goes well, the tablets themselves will start selling around the same time as the content meant for them.
What remains to be seen is just how many current-generation and next-generation Atom chips Intel manages to sell through all these endeavors.