Intel’s released some new details on what its Windows 8 tablets will look like, either later this year or early next, at a conference in Beijing today. It’s going to have two different lines — a traditional 10-inch model and an 11-inch hybrid with a physical keyboard.
Despite reports that Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors would be delayed until June, CNET now says that Intel will start rolling out the highly anticipated processors on April 23.
The “ultrabook” doesn’t exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They’re great, skinny, fast laptops — but they’re not cultural smash. The solution? Create a crazy Japanese acid binge TV commercial? Maybe? Add more acid.
Advertising can be weird — but weird doesn’t have to mean either good or bad. I still can’t decide where Intel’s “Desperado” ad for Ultrabooks sits on the spectrum.
There have been a series of hold-ups with Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor line, but according to CPU World the wait is almost over; some of the new mobile and desktop quad-core chips will be launched before the end of April.
I remember when Netbooks were the hot new amazing thing, but they’ve been rather eclipsed by cheap tablets in more recent times. Efforts from Intel could see the ailing category reborn, according to current rumours.
It’s been known for quite some time that Intel wants to enter the tablet space. When its Atom-based Balboa Pier chipset hits in early 2013, it could ultimately power the first Intel-based tablet people care about thanks to a rumoured quad-core processor, eight gigabytes of RAM and Ivy Bridge-class graphics. Whoa.
Just a few weeks ago we heard rumours that Google was plotting a pay TV service set to launch this year, and now a Wall Street Journal report has surfaced, suggesting that Intel is also planning to launch a web-based TV service in 2012.