HP will not be on arm-based tablet with Windows RT release. Instead, the company targets tablets with x86 chips such as Intel and AMD. The largest computer manufacturer in the world, first in the business to business market focus.
At the beginning of this year there were even reports that HP on both tablets with Intel Atom processors, as well as to variants with arm-soc’s would work. Nowadays, these plans shall be deleted, as a spokesman at Bloomberg known. “The decision is influenced by input from our customers,” writes Marlene Somsak, spokeswoman for HP in the US, “The robust and established ecosystem of x86 applications provides the best user experience at this moment and in the near future.”
In mid-June, Microsoft introduced its own Surface tablets with arm chips. The question was how the hardware would react to the fact that they now have to compete with the Windows developer from Redmond. HP would be the decision not to arm tablets to bring, however, already taken for Microsoft’s plans became known, according to Somsak. HP will in the first instance, on business users with its Windows 8 tablets. At the end of april, up popped a document which showed that HP is working on the Slate 8. This is a tablet with 10.1″screen, a thickness of 9.2 millimeters and a weight of 0,68 kg, which is about the docking options and support for multitouch and a stylus. Which x86 processor the tablet is going to get, is not known.
