Intel is down with tablets and razor thin netbooks, yo
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 12th 2010 7:27AM
posted May 12th 2010 7:27AM
Gauntlet, thrown. Mooly also took the opportunity to show off a razor thin netbook reference design that he expects to see on the market "sooner or later" sporting a hard working dual-core Pineview-class Atom CPU to support heavy-duty multi-tasking OSes -- the same chips that are apparently at the heart of Intel's tablet ambitions. See the incredibly thin netbook prototype after the break along with a few choice grabs of Mooly raising the roof."People ask me, are you serious about trying to participate in the tablet market? The answer is yes, we are going to have tablets... stay tuned for Computex. We are going to design silicon for this category and we are going to actively participate in this category."
This guy makes me think of the fake gansta-rapper dude in Grand Theft Auto IV. "It's the streets man, they need someone like me!!" :-D
@drange Lol.
Here's Intels tablet-problem: Intel sees the tablet category as essentially "netbooks without keyboards". That is, a slim form factor PC running Windows. And for that job they have Atom.
How ever, what the industry is slowly beginning to realize, is that Windows and other full desktop OS'es are NOT the way to go with a tablet. HP came to this conclusion, and even Microsoft seems to come around to that realization.
Performance per watt, is the name of the tablet game. And in this regard Intels Atom class of processors have a long way to catch up with ARM-based processors. The ability to run Windows is not what the tablet makers of tomorrow will be asking for.
@Garion
You could be right, and my anti-Microsoft, subversive side wants you to be right, but there's no fundamental reason why a good tablet application can't run under a suitable version of Windows.
My last personal laptop ran Vista, and I hardly used it for years, until I broke down and upgraded to Windows 7 a few months ago. I still hold a huge grudge against Microsoft for subjecting me to Vista, and Windows 7 is still bloated, but let's face it, Windows is the lingua franca of personal computing. Dethroning Microsoft won't be easy. I don't expect Windows Mobile (or Phone 7) to win the battle for handheld computers, which will soon replace laptops as the dominant form, but Windows can easily fall a year or two behind the iPhone OS and Android and still catch up. I really hope it doesn't. I'm an Android partisan flying the revolutionary flag at this point, but I'm not naively utopian.
@restonthewind
I want an OS that's very light (native or fast for mainstream-smartphones), supports cross-compatability even across different architecture (ARM and x86 and even RISC), available to developers/manufacturers (Open or easily-adopted) but is stable enough to not need Anti-Virus.
The best candidate is MeeGo, followed by Android (just loses out due to Java), then WebOS, then Ubuntu (due to its flexibility but Apps still require recompiling), then Windows 7 (its the awesom-ist except for security and x86 only).
now.... THAT is a bigger iPhone :)
He's sort of an Emo Mario.
@Gregorian
I think he's just trying to be cool or maybe just low-brow.
Mid life crisis for a white guy usually means a Harley and mistress half his age.... this dude has added 'wish I was black' to the list
Maybe it's just me, but I picture Austin Powers trying so hard to hold back in saying his name...
"Mooly mooly mooly mooly...."
@beyondthetech
No, you do that at the Eric Schmidt keynote/presentation.
@beyondthetech
ROFL his name is Mooly.......You do know "mooly" is another name for the N word...and this guy pretending to be an N word in the pics...too funny...:P
Razor thin...hm, now i can shave with it too... lol
Maybe this will help bring us a fully functional Windows 7 tablet....
If Intel wants more streetcred I'd recommend making tablets that are tough enough to break knees. Wearing a hat backwards just ain't gonna cut it, no matter how razorthin his netbook is.
WHY does he look like he's trying to "hang wit da homeboyz"???
@ounkeo
Cause he's a mooly.
Who's the dude?
i still think the axiotron modbook is the tablet computer on the market, ok you can down rank me now
best tablet, sorry i am dyslexic
They already produce chips for tablets and netbooks. I realize they want to sell more product but, why would anyone want a product that runs years old OS's or what it took MS decades to become, when it's already out there...the Mac's OS?
Getting courier and slate axed makes me think something big is coming. Maybe they really do know what they're doing...
@Dshark HP certainly does ( i.e. buying Palm out ). Microsoft however, well they don't know how to make anything nice.
He looks like a tool with that hat on backwards.
@mynameisjay
Hes getting his Samuel L. Jackson on, hes chillin.
I demand a video I DEMAND IT NOW!!!!
Problem with Intel is that they show all of these cool 'reference' designs and then expect someone else to make them. Funny how that never works out in the end.
Sort of like the car shows where they keep showing the 'Car of Tomorrow' which we'll never really see.
I look forward to Computerx.
He's down with the bitches n' hoes.
I want them to put one of the dual core models in the exopc... I would snap it up in a second
Based soley on these pictures, I feel so embarassed for this posers' kids and grandkids...making the giant assumption he did successfully breed, pre-hat.
After watching the video, the guy is very intelligent and knows his markets.
http://images.buddytv.com/articles/the-office-6.21.jpg
Haha, those pictures somehow made me feel awkward.
Is that Sylvester Stallone?
Raise the Roof, Playa!
@cherryboom
J Allard's really taken him under his wing