Tablet, or laptop? Topic of this second election results in the past year to allow PC practitioners sad. IDC predicts PC sales will decline in 2013 by 7.8%, while in 2013 the global tablet tablet shipments grew 58.7 percent, to reach 229.3 million units, more than a portable PC.
Irreversible trend, Intel's answer is very simple, as long as their own and previous OEM partners into new growth space is like. The fourth generation of Core and latest mobile chip is the stepping stone.
This is more like a pincer. On a laptop, Core show greater imagination, and in the flat, Bay Trail chips are Samsung Galaxy Tab breakthrough three core vendors such.
Low power consumption to no fan:
Power consumption has been the soft underbelly of X86, Intel choose Sike their biggest drawback. Haswell has better power control, Core Graphics has been further strengthened; integrates a complete voltage regulator. So for the latest Haswell chip, the biggest improvement is power consumption.
However, low power consumption and to what extent? Intel demonstrated a conceptual fanless Win8 tablet, although there is no physical and price, but the concept is already a landmark breakthrough, because there is no fan of X86, iPad replaced Core thickness of chip, which gives OEM tremendous imagination.
Intel's senior vice president and general manager of sales and marketing division 唐克锐 said the new Intel Core Duo processor is a processor in ancient biggest generational upgrade. In addition to greatly enhance the graphics capabilities beyond, Intel began to dare to speak their power consumption: the minimum energy to 6W.
Low power consumption can do what? Have super this sample do with ordinary battery usage time 9 hours, but on the other hand look, Comutex showcase some of the existing products do not meet this standard.
Thereby, Intel attempted to hold such products to find the junction of tablet and notebook PC, that "combo" PC. No matter how twisted, buckle is flat, open laptop Intel advocacy experience into the mainstream.
Core Atom end invasion Manufacturer:
The rapid growth of the tablet, in addition to iPad, the Samsung is the only company with stable sales in the global market vendors. This fast-growing Android market is actually flooded with a large number of low-end products white card. In fact, most sales.
Intel evening announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablet uses the Atom processor, which is directly on the tablet proves Intel has taken a firm step.
In fact, Intel will also be featured quad-core 22nm Atom processor, and based on the SOC smartphone reference design platform, and come up with 4G LTE solutions, which are held for the clearing of the mobile market barriers.
According to special margin fan clutch is understood that a larger breakthrough system. No matter how much the share of Android, Apple CEO Cook has a rhetoric that 80% of the data from the iPad, he also ridiculed to: "Android tablet to buy back really use it?" But Win8 tablet once universal, Cook could not sit still a.
Bigger problem is Microsoft Win8 still flawed, even Windows 8.1 is also difficult to disclose in advance maturity.
Intel did not know at what stage of users like best strategy is they're doing. "Chrome OS, win8, Android, we do our best to support the best user finally get our chips are like."
Strategic attack from the spear and shield:
Not just Intel, it is difficult to know what the manufacturers have now consumers want, so most companies do not have the previous single strategy. Whether Lenovo Yoga or HP 360-degree turn of the screen, the first batch of production are afraid to be too large. Prefers to sell when the stock can not lose soon falling prices of raw materials.
Intel's strategy of attack from the presence of such a possibility, namely Core power consumption down fast enough to reach the level of Atom, the graphics chip stealth technology, it needs to start high-speed 3D computing 6W without it infinitely close to zero. And another situation Atom performance faster Core will go back to the desktop PC end.
No leaf fan should only drawback is its price where the market price close to the air, but in most consumers still easily accepted.
