Although
Intel are one of the biggest makers of
CPU’s for netbooks, laptop and PC’s the
U.S chip maker had found it increasingly difficult to secure some
tablet success.
The
Android OS will run on an X86 platform, which is now being frequently proven with the sudden burst of Chinese made dual-boot Android/Windows tablets hitting the market.
The problem
tablet makers have had though is Intel chips don’t offer the best performance and
battery life expected for
tablet devices, and so Intel have had to work pretty hard on making it’s next lot of chips capable of taking on the ever popular
ARM based CPU’s.
The newest range of Intel
Atom chips known as
Oak Trail have been specifically designed to address the power and energy expectations of
tablet users, and are expected to be seen in the
first wave of Intel powered tablets by this May.
The
Oak Trail chip is a newer version of the ever popular
Atom CPU with a
clock speed of 1.5 Ghz. The design of the
new chip is likely to be found in a a whole range of different devices ranging from smart phones, to netbooks and
laptops to of course
Honeycomb tablets.