Intel Atom Z650: Moorestown in a tablet

TESO comes from a tablet based on new solution by Intel Atom Z650 1.9 GHz Moorestown. Are not currently available information and other details on the device.


The Chinese company tenses and ready to launch a new tablet that, to some extent, be regarded as an anti-iPad will be made available in two different versions. The first will be equipped with Intel Atom Z515 processor and Windows 7 operating system, the second, and this is the most interesting news, with the new Intel Atom Z650 Moorestown with an operating frequency of 1.9 GHz will make his first appearance as public.

The tablet shown to be tense and a form factor device with 9.7 inch, but even if it is no secret that Intel is working to produce low-power solutions for the crew of systems such as tablets and smartphones, surprisingly maybe of the first devices to deploy the new processor chipmaker California. Although the tablet version of the Atom Z515 processor with 1.2 GHz uses the Microsoft operating system at home, the version with the new Z650 Moorestown will be equipped with systems based on Android (probably version 2.2) or Meego.

For the moment, in fact, there is no support for Windows as Moorestown only support OS SFI (Simple Firmware Interface). Incompatibility between the new processor product from Californian chipmaker and Microsoft operating system at home we have addressed sometime ago. Intel Moorestown, the Menlow platform to succeed and dedicated to small devices, is coupled to a Langwell chipset processors and Lincroft Atom Z6xx (1.5GHz to 1.9GHz).

One of the interesting aspects is the reduced consumption of this solution, according to the manufacturer, we can guarantee autonomy from 8 to 10 hours when considering the use on a device like a tablet. Besides tense, of course, other manufacturers will make available soon, devices based on its new CPU.

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