Intel claims that laptops with quadcore-Atoms and touchscreens are on their way, whose prices are around the $ 200 would lie. The production of the Atom Bay Trail platform start in the second half of this year and the first products will be available probably by the end of 2013.
Intel does not offer much Atoms for netbooks more and the company must at the time of the sale of tablets with the Atom Z2760. “In the first quarter of 2013, the deliveries of tablets doubled compared to the fourth quarter of last year and we expect a new doubling in the next quarter,” said Stacy Smith, chief financial officer of Intel, without, however, numbers to call. The successor to the current Atom platform, Bay Trail, according to him, for more different products, with different screen sizes and prices.
The advent of Bay Trail should the market for cheap laptops boost, says the departing ceo of Intel, Paul Otellini, at the announcement of the quarterly results from Intel: “The prices of notebooks which are very thin and light, touch support and non-Core features, probably for a low fee of 200 dollars are offered.”
Intel introduces the successor of the current Cedar Trail platform to its own say in the second half of the year. On the basis of a previous roadmap was noticed that the production later this year, after which the first products based on the platform at the end of 2013 should appear. The soc of the platform, codenamed Valleyview, consists of up to four processing cores and a 22nm produced gpu. The cpu can, other than the current Atoms, instructions out-of-order processing, which is a speed of 50 to 100 percent should produce. Also the gpu would be substantially addressed, and up to three times faster than the previous generation of Atom-gpu’s. In addition, the gpu high resolutions up to 2560×1600 pixels support and are compatible with DirectX 11. The variant of Bay Trail for laptops will have a tdp of 6.5 W.
