Knowing the demand from tablet PC vendors, Intel and Microsoft have recently revealed a roadmap for their Wintel platform to production partners, said the sources, noting that the new platform will come with a less than 5W low-power CPU from Intel paired with Microsoft's Windows 8 OS.
While Intel is also expected to lower prices for its new CPUs, tablet PC vendors also hope that the new Wintel platform will help them tackle the compatibility issues found between Android 3.0 and 3.1.
New Wintel tablets to compete with Apple in 2012
Posted on Friday, June 24 2011 @ 23:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes reports new Wintel tablets may have a chance of competing against Apple's iPad in 2012: