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Ocosmos OCS-9 Is a Sleek and Thin Windows 7 Tablet

The OCS-9 Windows 7 slate from Ocosmos has been spotted before, but now the tablet is finally getting itself ready for entering into the retail market where it will start selling for roughly $700, about $511 Euros if you happen to live on the other side of the pond.The tablet may seem hardly any different from all th...

19 September 2011
09:43 GMT

First Windows 8 Tablet Might Be Powered by Intel CPUs

Intel has been making great efforts lately to get into the tablet market and it now seems like all the trouble wasn't in vain as reports suggest that the first Windows 8 tablet to arrive could be powered by an Intel processor. Microsoft has been making quite a fuss recently about Windows 8's ARM support,...

12 September 2011
10:34 GMT

Razer Switchblade Concept Is Powered by Intel Atom Z690 1.7GHz CPU

When it showcased for the first time the Switchblade concept at the CES 2011 fair, Razer was very secretive about the hardware used in this gaming mini-PC, but now the company has come to confirm that the device is indeed powered by an Intel Oak Trail CPU.The chip in question is actually the yet unreleased Oak Trail ...

27 July 2011
11:17 GMT

Android Doesn't Run Very Well on Intel Tablets, Yet

Even though Intel outlined some very ambitious plans for the tablet and smartphone markets, it might just be that it still has quite some work to do before its processors can really run the Android OS effectively.It is already well known that the ARM architecture currently holds the highest stake as far as tablet ha...

3 June 2011
10:48 GMT

Intel Atom Z2700 Tablet SoC to Debut in Q2 2011

In 2012, Intel will continue its assault on the tablet market with the introduction of a new Z-series processors that will continue from where the Atom Z670 has left off. This new chip will be called Z2700 and will use the 32nm Cloverview core.Information about this chip is scarce at this moment, but Fudzilla claims ...

3 June 2011
09:48 GMT

Intel Tablets Finally Get Pictured and Caught on Video

It appears that the fabled Intel Oak Trail tablets are finally getting out into the open, even though most of them are still prototypes that probably won't debut before the month of July 2011 comes around. Intel and ARM didn't really have any means of trying to steal each other's market share until t...

31 May 2011
05:10 GMT

ASUS Eee PC X101 Is a Very Thin Oak Trail Machine

It appears that the PadFone is not the only thing that ASUS brought over to Computex, since a certain, very thin laptop has also been spotted, featuring everything a netbook is supposed to have.The Intel Atom Z670 central processing unit was primarily developed as a viable x86 tablet processing solution, one that Vi...

30 May 2011
04:55 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro Uses New-Generation Oak Trail

With the 2011 edition of the Computex trade show just waiting to see its gates officially open, items on display are already making the news, one of them being an x86 tablet from ViewSonic.Computex is one of the electronic shows that happens every year, being a time when many IT players gather together in Taipei, Ta...

30 May 2011
03:54 GMT

Intel Quietly Launches Atom Z650 Tablet SoC

Intel has just quietly added a new member to its Oak Trail SoC platform, the Atom Z650 which is based on the same architecture as the previously introduced Z670, but is designed to be used inside less expensive tablets. The Oak Trail platform was designed for slates and other low-power devices and comprises the Linc...

25 May 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel Oak Trail Powers Upcoming Acer Android Tablet

Whether cheaper than the rest of not, it appears that a new tablet from Acer is going to hit the road soon, or at least will be officially exposed soon, featuring the x86-Android hardware-software combo.There are already a fair bunch of Android-loaded tablets on the market that are either on sale or close to reachin...

24 May 2011
09:03 GMT

Fujitsu LifeBook Uses Oak Trail and a Sliding Mechanism

It seems that the newest Atom processor to leave Intel's labs has been scoring design wins ever since it came out, with Fujitsu now adding to the list by unveiling the LifeBook TH40/D.Since the Intel Atom Z670 processor came out about a month ago, it is no real surprise to hear that makers of tablets have adopt...

13 May 2011
05:12 GMT

Intel Wants Oak Trail Tablets with Android 3.1

Intel may have once been focused on seeing its processors paired with the Microsoft Windows OS, but it looks like it now wants a certain new Atom chip to be used in as many Android devices as possible.It has been about a month since Intel delivered its newest member of the Atom series of central processing units.Tha...

13 May 2011
04:35 GMT

Motion Computing CL900 Is a Windows 7 Tablet

Windows 7 tablets aren't many, at least compared to Android-loaded ones, but motion Computing didn't let this stay in the way of its launch of the CL900, powered by the newest Atom central processing unit.While it may be that the ARM architecture, at least for the time being, is better suited for tablets a...

12 May 2011
03:59 GMT

VersaPro Is an Upcoming NEC Tablet, Oak Trail Put to Work

Some time ago, Intel delivered its first Oak Trail Atom central processing unit, and it looks like that chip is precisely what NEC intends to use in its construction of a certain tablet PC.The tablet market will definitely keep growing now that the iPad 2 is in full swing and Android-loaded or Windows models have be...

11 May 2011
07:40 GMT

Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 Oak Trail Tablet Listed and Priced

It appears that the new processor that Intel developed for tablets has landed in yet another model, although it will take up to two months for product shipments to actually begin.Regardless of what has been happening on the tablet market, one can say with reasonably little doubt that new and better models are going ...

4 May 2011
07:21 GMT

Samsung Also Plays the Sliding Keyboard Card

As has become rather common, official notices or unofficial reports and rumors are running rampant on the IT market, with one of the latest of them being what one may call a potential rival to the ASUS Eee Pad Slider. While some may have thought that ASUS had called dibs on the so-called slider tablet design, thi...

2 May 2011
07:08 GMT

Dell Latitude ST Is an Oak Trail Tablet Set for October Launch

The Dell Streak name may have already left its first set of track on the IT market, but it looks like the company is preparing a different tablet, albeit set to debut quite a bit later than the other. Intel may have released its first Oak Trail Atom CPUs a bit too late for Dell to use it in the 10-inch Streak tab...

23 April 2011
03:17 GMT

Atom Z670 Oak Trail Chip Powers Maestro S Tablet

It wasn't too long ago that Intel delivered its very first Oak Trail central processing unit, and it appears that one of the over 35 tablets based on it has reared its neck at last, courtesy of Maestro.Nowadays, there aren't that many tablet powered by Intel's Atom series of central processing units.B...

19 April 2011
03:48 GMT

ASUS Tablet Moves from Tegra to Oak Trail Atom Z670, Gets Torn Off Website

Users may be familiar with the ASUS Eee Pad Slider tablet, but they might not know of the possibility that it will use a certain, recently-launched CPU instead of the Tegra 2 SoC as originally planned.ASUS is one of those companies that has multiple tablet designs on sale, particularly ones with physical keyboards.S...

18 April 2011
03:16 GMT

Intel Plans Tablets That Can Run for a Month Without Recharge

With tablets getting so popular so quickly, Intel appears to have decided that it is about time it began to move faster in its making of newer and better processors, eventually making battery life a moot point altogether. At one point in the past, performance was the prime concern of those dealing in any sort of ...

16 April 2011
04:21 GMT

Intel Also Gets Its Android 3.0 Tablet Plan Going

Reports are, as always, running about, and it looks like Intel is especially scrutinized this once, as its supposed plan for the Android tablet market is said to have been exposed, to some extent at least.Intel is always working on something, sometimes more avidly than usual, and it appears this is one of those time...

14 April 2011
09:56 GMT

ElitePad Intel Oak Trail Tablet from ECS Tested by FCC

It looks like the word elite is showing up as part of IT product names more and more often lately, this once having landed in the moniker for a certain ECS slate that the FCC appears to have tested.The word 'elite ' has again reared its neck on the IT market, and it has nothing to do with the new mobile wo...

13 April 2011
08:00 GMT

Intel to Detail Its Upcoming Cedar Trail Atom CPU at IDF Beijing 2011

Lately, Intel's Atom processors have been the target of many debates as their performances and power consumption characteristics have been attacked by AMD's first generation Fusion chips on one hand and ARM chips on the other, but the Santa Clara based company won't give up without a fight and during t...

12 April 2011
11:09 GMT

Intel Atom Z670 Released, Powers Over 35 Tablets

It appears that Intel has finally brought forth its first Oak Trail central processing units that are meant for tablet PCs, set to perpetuate the Atom series of CPUs and paired with the SM35 Express Chipset.The past few months have been filled with rumors and reports about what the upcoming Oak Trail Atom platform f...

11 April 2011
11:19 GMT

Intel Oak Trail Powers Tablets in Time for Computex

While some tablets, especially Android-powered ones, are already selling or will start selling soon, Intel is getting ready to push its Oak Trail platform out in force, something that might just happen by the end of June.Although the Apple iPad is still firmly dominant on the tablet market, models powered by other, ...

4 April 2011
06:09 GMT

Intel Starts Shipping Its First Oak Trail CPU, the Atom Z670

On Sunday Intel has added the first Oak Trail Atom SoC (system-on-a-chip) to the company's official price list which means that it shouldn't take long until the first tablets and netbooks based on the new Atom Z670 start arriving in retail. The Oak Trail platform was designed especially to be used insid...

28 March 2011
02:56 GMT

IDF 2011 Will See Next-Generation Intel Atom CPUs

Intel may have only a short time ago released the Oak Trail generation of Atom central processing units, but it appears that, for whatever reasons, the company might just speed up its release of yet an even more advanced generation.While things did seem to go quiet on the IT market for a while, it looks like the str...

21 March 2011
04:40 GMT

Intel's Oak Trail Atom Z670 CPU Is Priced at $75, Almost Four Times More than Tegra 2

Intel certainly has high hopes for the low-power Atom Z670 processor that the company has specially developed in order to be used in tablets and other low power devices, but recent reports claim that Intel's expectations might fall short of its target as the chip is priced at a much too high $75 US. This pric...

11 March 2011
09:16 GMT

Toradex Presents Intel Oak Trail-Based Single-Board Computer

Some consumers may know of Intel's Oak Trail platform, the new set of low-power x86 chips mainly intended for mobile products, but it seems Toradex thought of a somewhat different use for it.Intel has been looking for ways of invading the ARM-dominated mobile space for about as long as the latter has craved a s...

9 March 2011
03:14 GMT

Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 Tablet Is an Oak Trail Device with Windows 7

As end-users know, many tablets were released during MWC 2011, but most of them used ARM chips, meaning that Intel's Oak Trail platform is, as of yet, underrepresented, something that Fujitsu seems to want to help remedy. Currently, the NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms are among, if not the bes...

22 February 2011
04:35 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro Is a 10-inch Dual-Boot Tablet

It appears that ViewSonic has made the official introduction of a certain tablet which, though not yet available, should turn some heads considering its choice of both hardware and software platforms. Like so many other companies on the PC and consumer electronic markets, ViewSonic has entered the tablet market. ...

11 February 2011
02:47 GMT

Future Intel Atom Oak Trail Z670 3W CPU to Power Windows 7 Tablets, Due for March Release

Given the fact that, without a doubt, tablets will become even more widespread and popular on the future, Intel's quite keen on pushing out a solution designed specifically for the low-power needs of this particular segment, with the “Oak Trail” single-core Atom Z670 being apparently the first produc...

3 February 2011
04:08 GMT

Intel's MeeGo 1.2 OS Ends Up on Tablets

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 Tr...

27 January 2011
08:22 GMT

Intel Oak Trail to Spawn Over 35 Netbooks and Tablets

Intel's Pine Trail platform had a fairly good run, but it is almost type for it to hand the field over to its successor, the Oak Trail, which might just prove quite formidable, despite rumors claiming the contrary.Consumer up to speed with such things will know that Intel Atom CPUs lie at the heart of almost al...

13 January 2011
08:19 GMT

Samsung Reveals First Sliding Tablet PC 7 Series at CES 2011

In order to at least partially circumvent the limitation that the lack of a physical keyboard imposes upon a tablet, Samsung Electronics America created what it calls the Sliding PC 7 Series. Slates definitely grew as a market quickly, so companies, naturally, begun finding ways to circumvent whatever 'disadvan...

6 January 2011
03:41 GMT

ASUS Slips In Photos of Its CES-Bound Eee Pad Tablets

For months ASUS has been claiming to be preparing more than one tablet PC, and the outfit might just finally bring them out during the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, set to take place between 6 and 9 January.Early this year, slates went from potentially non-viable (from a marketing standpoint) to flourishing co...

28 December 2010
04:57 GMT

35 Intel-Powered Tablets to Debut in 2011

It seems that, while it is largely expected that 2011 will see a veritable battle spark between the x86 and ARM architectures on the IT market, Intel is quite firmly convinced it will have a solid number of design wins. Intel's Pine Trail platform has already been included in a bunch of tablets whose introdu...

9 December 2010
02:25 GMT

ASUS, Acer, Dell, Samsung and Toshiba Preparing Oak Trail Tablets

With the next-generation mobile platform from Intel on its way, end-users will probably not be too surprised to hear that top notebook vendors are going to soon release slates based on it.Many things are set to happen during the first quarter of 2011, from price shifts and marketing moves to launches of a whole new ...

3 December 2010
05:23 GMT

Ocosmos OSC1 Oak Trail Running UMPC Set to Arrive Q1 2011

It's been quite a while since we heard any news coming from Ocosmos' part since Intel briefly flashed the OSC1 UMPC at IDF 2010, but it seems like the company has been busy at work finalizing the Oak Trail running OSC1, latest report suggesting this is scheduled to reach us in Q1 2011.According to the compa...

29 November 2010
07:11 GMT

Intel Oak Trail Chips Enter Mass Production

In addition to having already started to ship the Sandy Bridge CPUs, Intel has supposedly also began to mass produce its latest platform for the mobile market, particularly that of tablet PCs.So far, whatever tablets ended up loaded with the Windows 7 Operating System were powered by the x86 architecture.Since Advan...

24 November 2010
08:09 GMT

Intel CPUs Not On Top of Tablet Maker's Favorites List

The Intel Atom platform has been, for quite some time, Intel's solution for entry-level mobile PCs and even tablet PCs. On the other hand, in parallel with the rise of the media tablet, the ARM architecture spawned a number of quite powerful CPUs, even dual-core models. SoCs (system-on-chip) such as the NVIDIA ...

2 August 2010
10:34 GMT

Next-Generation Intel Atom Platform to Be Named Oak Trail

With the Atom N series in full swing and Intel gearing up to launch its six-core central processing unit, the company seemed to have given consumers enough to occupy their minds with. Still, while most Internet entities were busy with the Pine Trail platform, new rumors arose concerning the other Atom lineup, namely ...

19 February 2010
03:22 GMT


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