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Intel Aims to Enter Tablet Market with Oak Trail Processor

According to the market research firm iSuppli Corp., seeking to capitalize on the fast growth of the tablet market relative to its core PC business, Intel Corp. has come off the sidelines with a microprocessor designed specifically for iPad-type devices, dubbed the Oak Trail.

While growth will be modest during the years to come for PCs—Intel’s traditional bedrock for revenue—expansion is unstoppable in the sizzling tablet market, led by Apple Inc.’s bestselling iPad, iSuppli findings show.

A comparison between the relatively limited growth vista for PCs versus the panoramic expansion landscape for tablet devices shows why Intel is serious about getting into the tablet game.

Global PC shipments in 2011 are forecasted to rise by 12.5 percent from 2010 and by 11.3 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Tablets, in comparison, will surge by a mighty 197.7 percent in 2011 and by 57.4 percent in 2012.

Oak Trail: Intel’s pathway through the thicket

In a market dominated by Apple and its ARM-based A4 microprocessor, Intel’s foray into tablet devices represents a realization by the chip titan that it needs to enter this space in order to remain competitive. Already, the tablet market is expected to heat up, with big names like Samsung Electronics, Toshiba Corp. and Dell Inc. announcing tablet devices of their own to go head to head with the iPad. With Oak Trail, Intel hopes to make some much-needed headway into the tablet market, even though the microprocessor is not scheduled to begin shipping until early 2011.

First announced by Intel in June this year—two months after Apple launched the iPad—Oak Trail is a System On a Chip (SOC) solution designed exclusively for tablets. Based on published reports, Oak Trail will consume as much as 50 percent less power than previous processors from the company and also will offer full high-definition video.

More important, Oak Trail will work on three operating system platforms—Android from Google, Windows 7 from Microsoft and MeeGo from Nokia—potentially expanding the universe of tablet devices in which the Intel processor might be used.

Matthew Wilkins, Principal Analyst (Compute Platforms) at iSuppli, believes Oak Trail’s compatibility with the various operating systems stemmed out of Intel’s frustration at seeing the iPad selling millions of units—figures that any company, Intel included, would have welcomed gladly.

“Intel is smart,” Wilkins said. “The company knows perfectly well that the media tablet market is being defined right now. And if the company doesn’t become a player immediately, its prospects of getting into the market in the future will only grow dimmer.”

For now, without Intel’s presence in the sector, each sale of a tablet device means a blow to the Intel processor in terms of evaporated revenue. It also could represent a missed sale in a PC that likely included an Intel-based processor.
Intel’s Atom processor revenues were down 4 percent sequentially in the third-quarter, which many construe as a sign of cannibalization by tablets.

To learn more about this topic, see Matthew Wilkins’ new report, entitled – ‘Compute Platforms Witness Strong Q2, but H2 Slowdown Expected’ at http://www.isuppli.com/Home-and-Consumer-Electronics/Pages/Compute-Platforms-Witness-Strong-Q2-but-H2-Slowdown-Expected.aspx?PRX

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Intel aims to enter tablet market with Oak Trail processor, says iSuppli
Seeking to capitalize on the fast growth of the tablet market relative to its core PC business, Intel has come off the sidelines with a microprocessor designed specifically for iPad-type devices, dubbed Oak Trail, according to the market research firm iSuppli.

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Neglect ropes, ladders, and superpowers. Engineers at Draper Laboratory are working on a task for that military that could allow soldiers to imitate the wall-climbing ability of Spider-Man – and the glass-clinging strength of Gecko-Man, if only such a superhero existed.

Enter Z-Man, the progeny of the Cambridge laboratory and a federal agency born within the Cold War to maintain US military technology a step ahead of the Soviets.

The task is too sensitive to become talked about openly, but as well exciting to be kept a top secret. So the engineers developing it gave the public a peek at the technology at the Very first Robotics Competition, a competition of student-built, soccer-playing robots that drew thousands to Boston University Agganis Arena.

Beyond the mechanical goal-scoring, the colorfully outfitted undergraduate challengers, and also the boisterous cheering crowds of people, the Draper exhibit occupied a quiet corner from the concourse.

Set up around the bend from a pizza stand and beneath an action shot of former BU great Harry Agganis in his football uniform, the Z-Man engineers wowed passersby with two prototypes of the climbing technologies.

One imitates the microscopic bumps a gecko uses to adhere to smooth surfaces via a power recognized as the van der Waals interaction; the other uses rows of freely moving fish hooks to grab the minuscule nooks and crannies in concrete and bricks, not unlike the way a spider climbs.

Small barbell weights dangled from the hand-sized prototypes, one attached to glass, the other to a cement. The team from Draper, a Cambridge not for profit lab that largely conducts research and development for that government, was not permitted to say whether they had been successful in creating pads which will permit a soldier with combat load to scale a 25-foot wall in 15 seconds.

Those are the capabilities envisioned in the scant particulars concerning the project found in unclassified documents about the website of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was created in 1958 after the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik to keep the US military about the cutting edge of technologies.

Among the main sponsors from the Boston Regional Very first Robotics tournament, Draper decided to offer this uncommon peek into the Z-Man Program to excite the pupils in attendance with one of the coolest  out of all the crazy cool things that Draper does, said Ellen Avery, Draper’s community relations manager, speaking over the crashing robot sounds from the arena.

But being a semisecret defense project, the Z-Man display was consequently vague and limited. Carter spoke about the physics behind the technologies, being a colleague exhibited how very easily the prototypes attached and came off the vertical surfaces.

That at least proposed that peoples hands or feet can use the technologies to scale vertical surfaces the same way – if Draper pads can be modified to handle the weight of a human. And if they can, look out for Z-Man.

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