Expect to See Atom In Smartphones and Tablet PCs Soon!

Intel announced recently that one could expect to see smartphones based on its Moorstown platform by early 2011. You can expect to see some tablets appear with the same platform under the hood little earlier than that.The platform was announced in Dec 2009 and Intel says they have at least 50 design wins in these two device categories. Besides an Atom processor inside the Moorstown also has a graphics processor built in.That adds to the graphics capability and the smartphones developed on the same platform have the capability to process 1080p HD video. This platform, Intel claims, delivers 2 to 4 times the performance of other processors in the product category. This was highlighted by a prototype running the 1080p version of Avatar at the just concluded Computex show in Taipei. OS to be supported include Android and MeeGo but not Windows.If you want to view the exibits, you can go here to take a virtual look until end August this year. A variant on the Moorstoen, called OAK Trail positioned at Tablets is going to be released early next year.