What is tablet PC?
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A tablet PC is usually a fully functional laptop PC, equipped with a stylus and, often, a touch screen. This form factor is intended for mobility where laptops/notebooks may be impractical or unwieldy, or do not provide the needed functionality. The term tablet PC was made popular in a product announced in 2001 by Microsoft. It was a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS. |
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| 2011-03-28 | Yukyung marshals army of IC vendors for Viliv tablet "Globally" designed and based on Windows, Yukyung Technologies' Viliv X70 EX 3G is a good example of a tablet that preceded the iPad. |
| 2012-07-10 | Worldwide tablet usage for TV content doubles year on year NPD survey has concluded that the number of consumers viewing TV/video content using tablets doubles yearly. |
| 2005-12-07 | WEDC's Max-Vu tech integrated in HP Compaq tc4200 tablet PC White Electronic Designs announced that its Max-Vu technology will be integrated into HP's "Enhanced Outdoor-Viewable Display" option for the HP Compaq tc4200 Tablet PC. |
| 2002-11-12 | Transmeta processor powers HP tablet PC Hewlett-Packard has chosen to integrate Transmeta Corp.'s Crusoe TM5800 processor on its latest Compaq Tablet PC TC1000, the first computer to use the 1GHz processor. |
| 2011-11-24 | TouchPad snatches second in tablet sales Surprising as it is, HP has beaten Samsung in tablet sales based on a U.S. market analysis by NPD. |
| 2010-07-07 | Toshiba, Intel deliver educational tablet PCs Toshiba Corp. and Intel KK will jointly commercialize an educational-use tablet PC designed to facilitate learning in compulsory education. |
| 2011-04-25 | TI's OMAP chief lists top 11 tablet features Stressing the importance of user experience, EE Times identifies 11 features that tablets sold in 2011-2012 should offer, among them, multiple OS, HD videoconferencing and computational photography. |
| 2012-11-05 | TI boasts of low-cost tablet TI's eTab could cost half the price of an Apple iPad Mini or Kindle Fire with a bill of materials estimated at $70. |
| 2012-07-30 | Tablet, smartphone demand to boost touch screen revenue Total touch screen module revenue will reach $16 billion this year, and nearly double in six years, reaching $31.9 billion by 2018, indicated NPD DisplaySearch. |
| 2012-09-11 | Tablet, smartphone demand dictate power IC market in Q2 Global revenue for power management semiconductors is estimated to have reached $7.9 billion in Q2, a 9.7 percent increase from $7.2 billion in Q1. |
| 2013-02-14 | Tablet, mobile app MPUs to dominate 2013 IC market IC Insights indicated that tablets, cell phones and embedded-processing systems will be the main driving force behind the growth forecast. |
| 2013-05-03 | Tablet surge shows no sign of slowing down IDC revealed that tablet shipments totalled 49.2 million units in 1Q13, surpassing the numbers registered during 1H12, growing 142.4 per cent YoY in 1Q13. |
| 2012-02-24 | Tablet sales to spike, iPad stays supreme This year, sales of tablets are seen to reach 9.4 million units, a 53.1 percent increase compared to 6.2 million units last year. |
| 2010-07-09 | Tablet PCs bite into netbook, notebook sales The success of tablet PC is expected to pull down sales of notebooks and netbooks, shifting some business away from x86 chips and Windows toward ARM-based processors and Google Android. |
| 2012-07-16 | Tablet panel shipments hit 7.5% MoM in June Spurred by robust shipments of new iPad, Surface and Nexus 7 from their supply chains, tablet PC panel shipments achieved 10.95 million units. |
| 2011-05-30 | Tablet boom weakens Q1 PC sales IHS blames the 0.3 percent decline in global PC sales in the first quarter on the rising number of tablet models on the market and some high-profile tablet launches in recent months. |
| 2011-05-27 | Tablet apps revenues to reach $15B in 2015 Market intelligence company In-Stat has projected that revenues from tablet applications will reach $15 billion in 2015. |
| 2013-05-15 | Smartphone, tablet apps processors market soared in 2012 The market for smartphone and tablet apps processors rose 60 per cent and 83 per cent respectively in 2012, fuelled by the continuous increase in mobile device usage. |
| 2010-10-29 | Smartphone chips found in Samsung tablet PC A teardown revealed that Samsung's Galaxy Tab uses up to 11 components that are used in the company's Galaxy S cellphone, including a Hummingbird processor. |
| 2004-07-23 | Semtech controller IC suits notebooks, tablet PCs Semtech developed a dual synchronous DDR and DDR2 buck power supply controller, targeting notebooks, tablet PCs and embedded apps. |
| 2011-05-04 | Portable consumer devices to dominate tablet market In-Stat report concludes that the table market for portable consumer device among businesses holds great potential for growth. |
| 2010-10-15 | Otellini says Intel to take tablet market The Intel CEO declared that the company will use all the assets at their disposal to win the segment, as he reported record revenues for Q3 10. |
| 2010-06-01 | OLPC taps Marvell Moby for XO tablet PCs One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and Marvell Technology have teamed up to jointly develop a family of next-generation OLPC XO tablet computers based on the Marvell Moby reference design. |
| 2010-01-12 | Nvidia Tegra 2 processor targets tablet PCs Nvidia unveiled its ARM-based Tegra 2 processor that appears to be aimed at tablet PCs and could show the future direction for mainstream processors to combine CPU, graphics and video functions. |
| 2011-09-08 | Nvidia dominates tablet apps processor market Among non-iPad tablet processor manufacturers, Nvidia is leading with 34.4 percent unit volume share in 1Q11, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. |
| 2011-04-14 | MEMS oscillators for tablet PCs, E-book readers SiTime Corp. introduces a portfolio of MEMS oscillators for tablet PCs and E-book readers, based on the SiT8003 Low Power MEMS Oscillator platform. |
| 2012-08-10 | Market melee key to tablet market dev't, says report Free for all between Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft crucial to the emergence of the tablet market. |
| 2013-02-08 | Low prices trigger tablet boom in Malaysia Malaysian consumers bought over 800,000 tablets in 2012 according to GfK Malaysia. |
| 2011-03-30 | Limited BT resin restart to affect tablet production Mitsubishi Gas Chemical is aiming to regain just 25 percent of its pre-earthquake capacity for BT resin by April, which could affect the manufacture of tablets and smartphones. |
| 2012-06-01 | LG, Samsung rule 2011 tablet display market IHS iSuppli revealed LG Display and Samsung Display held 46 and 35 percent of the market, respectively, with the rest of the 81 million-unit market split by six other suppliers. |
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