14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has already made public its intention of grabbing onto a larger share of the tablet market this year and since the educational sector is doing so well, the chip maker is aggressively pushing into that direction.
As reported by DigiTimes, Intel has placed an order for 10 million education-focused slates with Foxconn and another 6 million with Elitegroup Computer Systems.
In late January, Intel has introduced a 10-inch tablet, especially designed to be used in the school environment, which came with a range of accessories, including magnifications lenses and plug-in thermal probes you could just hook up to the slate per-se.
So far, governments like China and Turkey have both placed orders for educational tablets and more and more countries are expected to join the trend.
Turkey is expected to advance even more procurement orders in that direction so Apple, Microsoft and Samsung are preparing to compete for getting related orders.
For 2014, Intel has hopes, expecting to raise its 10 million tablet-chip shipments to a significant 60 million units. This might all become a reality, especially since Intel has started pushing its chips at Chinese-based cheap white-box tablet producers.