Intel Readies 'Bay Trail' for Holiday 2013

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At an industry event in Taipei today, Hermann Eul, general manager of Intel's Mobile and Communications Group, unveiled new details about the company's forthcoming Intel® Atom™ processor-based SoC for tablets ("Bay Trail-T") due in market for holiday this year. Based on the new Silvermont microarchitecture, the next generation 22nm Intel technology for tablets and ultra-mobile devices will enable sleek designs with 8 or more hours of battery life2 and weeks of standby, as well as support Android* and Windows 8.1*. Eul also spoke to recent momentum and announcements around the smartphone business and demonstrated the Intel® XMM 7160 multimode 4G LTE solution, now in final interoperability testing (IOT) with Tier 1 service providers across North America, Europe and Asia.
 
Anybody know when we will start seeing the Avoton chips? Really looking forward to those...
 
Is Holiday season referring to Christmas of 2013? July 4th is a Holiday too.
 
Holiday is usually an October-November launch. Last year's Clover Trail launch was also the same holiday period and debuted in November. That might have been a little later than usual due to problems with the power driver.

Another site shows that Intel is projecting Bay Trail tablets (w/Android) starting under $199: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040...ail-powered-tablets-will-start-under-199.html Would be awesome if true. Windows would require more flash storage, main memory and OS licensing fees, but around $300 shouldn't be an unreasonable price to find low end Windows 8.1 Bay Trail tablets.
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Someone on another forum posted a tidbit of info from an Intel slide presentation this week: http://i.imgur.com/J5ySOZC.png

Bay Trail-T Z3370, 2W SDP*, quad core @ 2.4GHz, the top model and rumored to include 4 "gen 7" EU graphics (same graphics uarch as Ivy Bridge and Haswell).

*"Scenario Design Power" (max power processor uses running typical programs), which is what Intel is using to rate low power tablet processors in addition to TDP. The specs of the Z3370 aren't available yet, but from the i5-4200Y specs you can see the difference between SDP and TDP on a different uarch. The Z3370 is probably a sub-4W TDP processor.
 
pxc said:
Holiday is usually an October-November launch. Last year's Clover Trail launch was also the same holiday period and debuted in November. That might have been a little later than usual due to problems with the power driver.
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Clover Trail devices were supposed to launch with Windows 8 last year but only one really did, the Samsung Ativ 500, I bought mine the day after Windows 8's launch. Bay Trail is the SoC that will make or break Windows 8 on tablets and hybrids. Windows 8 will have a touch time getting to the $200 mark, and more realistically $400 dollars will be the probably the baseline for the cheapest and smallest Windows 8 tablets with 64 GB of storage and 2 GB of RAM. But if 10" to 12" hybrids can hit the $500 dollar mark with 1080P screens, then that's when this could become interesting. Pricing is one of the key issues for Windows 8 tablets as they'll never be as cheap as the lowest end Androids because of the need for better hardware but if they can run desktop apps well they don't have to be quite as cheap.
 
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