Intel Atom Z670 for tablets, are three times more expensive than an Nvidia Tegra 2?

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I do not think that there are many doubts about the success of the tablets in the market, but there is still much cake for sharing and all the protagonists, from hardware manufacturers to creators of operating systems, are aware of this.

Bets of Google and Apple are clearly winning horses, but we must not forget that Microsoft is preparing its way. The from Redmond, as usual in their operating systems, go in the first instance for X 86 architectures, hand in hand with Intel.

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Intel has ready his latest development within the family Atom, known as Oak Trail, with the internal name of Z670 for the higher performance model. On the chip, and as the reason for this news, has been leaked that it will be priced at $ 75, in the face of manufacturers.

This price represents a value higher than the previous Atoms, and more expensive than other alternatives "not Intel". We more important comparison can do with the more widespread chipset (if we leave aside the A4 chip) on the market of the tablets: Nvidia Tegra 2.

Famous dual-core based on ARM Cortex-A9 is priced at around $ 20 for manufacturers, and their balance power/autonomy is difficult to beat for Intel options.

Ultimately, three times more expensive, by what we think we really need Intel to adjust the prices of the new processor to be competitive in the market, which we should remember that hand in hand with Windows 7, it also entails the payment of license.

If we consider that in addition to Nvidia we have Texas Instruments and Qualcomm welcoming to the rest of tablets on the market, the space for Intel is shrinking, not to mention the intentions NVIDIA with its Project Kal - El, with Quad before the end of the year.

Most important benefits of the Intel Atom Z670 are their 1. 66 GHz (single core, 2 threads), 512 KB of cache memory and a 5W TDP thermal design power. Although we are talking about a processor, it will be distributed within a SoC (System on Chip).

Some products already presented to used Oak Trail are tablets and netbooks from major manufacturers, good friends with Microsoft, such as Asus, Acer and Samsung. We highlight some of them like Samsung PC7, MSI WindPad 100W, or Fujitsu Stylistic Q550.

Intel Oak is not only the hardware that arises as ideal for tablets and netbooks that use Windows 7 operating system, is also a reference for MeeGo products that have to go out to the market. Please remember that Intel also is developing to Medfield, a geared more to the Smartphone platform.

In addition to MeeGo version 1.2, they advance us that to Google's operating system support will in future come in their latest versions, as they are turning to Intel processors.

Curious this filtration is that previously had been informed that the price would be about $ 25, a very competitive price for a chipset based on x 86, of low power consumption architecture. With the use of MeeGo, an operating system that does not have to pay license, you could put affordable products on the market. It seems that at the end the accounts will come out slightly higher.

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