Wintel itself is the problem. Android on x86 brings no benefit to the masses and x86/Windows is too expensive for that market too.
Microsoft so badly wants to reinvent itself that it is scary sad to see it in action. They are perpetually behind the curve, jumping on the latest bandwagon craze only to find themselves too late and too little.
The whole Zune affair was just classic Microsoft, as was the internet to be blunt about it.
They can't decide who they want to copy. Do they want to be Google II, Apple II, Sony II? No one knows.
What we all know though is that Redmond doesn't have an innovative bone in its bloated corporate body. All it knows to do is try and offer "me too" solutions after they see someone else bring it to market.
Tablets and Windows RT are just the latest effort to be something other than what it currently is. They are forever playing catch-up outside their core product line (windows OS), and even that is debatable considering what Apple's OS has continually brought to the market.
MS will die trying, they aren't asleep at the wheel. But they are lacking something, the ability to do what the folks at Google and Apple have done right under their noses.
Microsoft so badly wants to reinvent itself that it is scary sad to see it in action. They are perpetually behind the curve, jumping on the latest bandwagon craze only to find themselves too late and too little.
The whole Zune affair was just classic Microsoft, as was the internet to be blunt about it.
They can't decide who they want to copy. Do they want to be Google II, Apple II, Sony II? No one knows.
What we all know though is that Redmond doesn't have an innovative bone in its bloated corporate body. All it knows to do is try and offer "me too" solutions after they see someone else bring it to market.
Tablets and Windows RT are just the latest effort to be something other than what it currently is. They are forever playing catch-up outside their core product line (windows OS), and even that is debatable considering what Apple's OS has continually brought to the market.
MS will die trying, they aren't asleep at the wheel. But they are lacking something, the ability to do what the folks at Google and Apple have done right under their noses.
Acer one has been known for a while - http://tablet-news.com/2013/04/27/a...ered-atom-bay-trail-10-inch-tablet-named-wt5/
No huge surprise to see Dell and Samsung either. What they need to be in is something like the Nexus 10.
Why is that?
They're obviously not gonna make Apple drop their own design teams they've invested in - so a foot in samsung massive global dominance overall seems much more important that a little PR toy in the us market that doensn't sell that well either?
No logic at all?
If i was Intel - i'd focus on buttering up samsung at all means neccesary and convince them the effect of a BayTrail SoC on the overall picture will give them more ROI.
How bout some budget ultrabooks as well. I know a few family members and friends who'd love an ultrabook, but don't really need an Ivy or Haswell processor.If Intel reroutes some of their Ultrabook marketing funds to Bay Trail-T tablets, there should be some very good models available on launch.
How bout some budget ultrabooks as well. I know a few family members and friends who'd love an ultrabook, but don't really need an Ivy or Haswell processor.
Samsung are the obvious partner, especially with them struggling with their own chips. If Intel puts too much emphasis on Samsung they'll end up antagonising Apple more than they can afford, however.
The real problem would be - Samsung are just as merciless and corrupt as Intel are. I'd absolutely love to see those two in bed together trying to make it work to their own benefit first, but I suspect neither is crazy enough to try.
I can't decide if that would be awesome or frightening. Samtel
Acer one has been known for a while - http://tablet-news.com/2013/04/27/a...ered-atom-bay-trail-10-inch-tablet-named-wt5/
No huge surprise to see Dell and Samsung either. What they need to be in is something like the Nexus 10.
Snapdragon 800 in the new Kindle.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/32259-new-kindle-fire-hd-sports-2560x1600-display
Fudzilla said:Intel’s Q2 earnings call signalled the start of a strategic shift to small cores, namely Atom. Although Intel introduced Haswell in Q2, much of the emphasis was on Atom. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Intel President Renee James said Intel is now bringing Atoms on par with its Core products.
"We are treating Atom and Core equally," said James. This was not the case just a few years ago. For much of its life Intel treated Atom as an unwanted bastard child, a small core with low ASPs and margins - and we all know Intel loved big and pricey chips.
"We’re building parts for Atom that come all of the way up to Core,” said James. “You can build a Windows tablet, you can build and Android tablet, you can run both.”
James also talked up Android, which will probably be the OS of choice for many future Atom products.
"We've increased our efforts on Android," said James. "We're upping everything on the developer side"
Asked to comment on possible Atom cannibalization, James shrugged off any fear that consumers might ditch big cores in favour of Atoms.
“We think lots of people want high performance machines,” she said.
James showed off a Sony Vaio hybrid based on Haswell and pointed out that it could replace older PCs and to some extent tablets.
“That’s not a one-for-one replacement,” she added. “We’ve created Atom products that scale all the way up and down and Haswell products can also scale down to fanless designs.”
James said there will be some amount of cannibalization, but with different price points and form factors Intel should have no trouble coming up with a new segmentation approach.
and 32 GB of internal memory, which can be extended by another 32 GB through the micro-SD card slot. The tablet comes with an 8-megapixel rear camera at the back and a 2-megapixel camera at the front. The Encore comes loaded with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 and the Xbox SmartGlass software