At Computex, Shenzhen-based Joyplus announced four tablets that run Android, only two of which use the same CPU. The five-inch Joyplus M508 and seven-inch 5701 both tap the 624MHz Marvell PXA303, while the seven-inch M702 runs on a 600MHz WonderMedia Prizm MW8505, and the seven-inch M703 uses a 600MHz ARM926 CPU paired with a 600MHz DSP, says Joyplus....
Dell announced it would launch its Android-based Streak tablet in the U.S. for $500 at the end of July. Meanwhile, this week's Computex show was awash in Android tablets from companies including Compal, MSI, and others, while a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet peeked out into the blogosphere via South Africa....
The Linux-based MeeGo operating system gained traction at Computex, with prototype tablets shown by Wistron, Compal, Quanta, CZC, and others, and Acer announcing it will offer MeeGo on both netbooks and tablets. Meanwhile, Phoronix benchmarked MeeGo for Netbooks and found it to be faster than Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Fedora, and Moblin....
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Processor manufacturer Freescale Semiconductor has announced a reference design for tablet PCs that the company believes will make products feasible at a cost of $200
Freescale suggests ARM based tablets for $200?
Aigo is readying three Android-based tablets incorporating the Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC, led by an HD-ready 7-inch Aigo N700 model, says ChiniTech. Meanwhile, Compal is prepping some uCLinux-based & APA0x& PMPs (portable media players), and all signs point to HP abandoning its Windows 7 & Slate& in favor of tablets that run its newly acquired WebOS platform....
WonderMedia Technologies announced a Cortex-A9 processor with support for Android 4.0 and Windows Embedded Compact 7. The Prizm WM8950 is limited to a single, 800MHz ARM core, but the system-on-chip also offers an ARM Mali-400 3D graphics processing unit, 1080p video decoders, a security engine, and support for peripherals including HDMI, LVDS, and DVI video outputs....
Nvidia, no stranger to producing reference designs for graphics cards, is rumored to be getting ready to produce reference designs for smartphones and tablets based on its Tegra platform.
Italian vendor Ekoore announced three tablets with capacitive multitouch displays -- two Atom-based tablets that run Ubuntu 11.04 or Windows 7, and an ARM-based tablet running Android 2.3.
Intel announced it will roll out a 22-nanometer (nm) version of the Atom processor in 2013 codenamed & Silvermont,& followed by a 14nm & Airmont& Atom in 2014.
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