Nexus 7 passes with Intel Atom Z3000 (Bay Trail)? - Italian Notebook

promises to be even a change of platform for the third generation of the popular 7-inch tablet, Nexus 7 , so far always made by ASUS for Google. According to a Korean site the new device should even mark the transition from an ARM based SoC to one x86, in particular a Intel Atom Z3000 of the last generation, ie Bay Trail. The tablet should be made for the third time by ASUS and its as a result of an agreement between the Taiwanese giant U.S. chipmaker and the choice would fall on this SoC.

The new Atom

so follow the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus which in turn had replaced the previous Nvidia Tegra 3. At the moment we do not know nothing of this future device but the choice, if confirmed, could be the key to the market not only for Intel , who is trying for some years to break through in the field of tablet, but also for the entire market. In fact, if the combination proves to be acceptable to consumers could lead to many more producers to the same switch from x86 to ARM solutions , a decision that would call into serious difficulties not only chipmaker ARM as well as Qualcomm and Nvidia, while if the choice turns out to be a loser losers would be especially so far Intel has struggled a lot in this market.

new Nexus 7 with Intel Atom Finally, it could also be the first tablet of this type with a 64-bit version of the OS of the green robot: like all x86 CPUs it supports the Atom natively this architecture and Intel has already announced recently that they are working on a release of this type, since Google officially has not yet decided to enter the 64-bit support in their lineup.

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Nexus 7 passes with Intel Atom Z3000 (Bay Trail)? - Italian Notebook