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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| 2004-11-30 | BOE increases tablet PC display shipments to Fujitsu BOE TFT-LCD SBU has increased shipments of its Viewiz tablet PC display to Japan's Fujitsu to almost 10,000 per month, five times the original amount. |
| 2011-03-30 | Atmel powers LG's G-Slate tablet Atmel claims a major design win as it's maXTouch solution will be integrated in LG Electronics Mobile's G-Slate tablet touchscreen. |
| 2011-11-24 | Asus, Dell to stick with tablet biz Amid reports of giving up their tablet businesses, the computer companies are not retreating from the arena. |
| 2011-03-22 | Apple to rule tablet touch screen space in 2011-2012 The tablet PC touch screen market will continue to be ruled by Apple this year and next. Meanwhile, touch screen shipments could soar to 260 million units in 2016 from just 60 million units in 2011. |
| 2012-05-17 | Apple iOS regains leadership in tablet space "The key to Apple's media-tablet success has been its offering of a complete hardware-plus-content ecosystem," said Rhoda Alexander, director for monitors and tablets research at IHS. |
| 2012-09-27 | Android tablet wars putting the pressure on Rockchip Rockchip faces stiff competition from multinational chip companies like Samsung Electronics and Taiwanese behemoth MediaTek. |
| 2012-03-26 | Analyst: Tablet size matters Screen size has emerged not only as a key differentiator, but also the leading indicator of different tablet usages. |
| 2012-09-07 | Analyst: Tablet panel shipments to grow 56% this year IHS said the iPad, as well as smaller 7.x-in models from various brands, will lead to a notable 56 percent annual increase in shipments of the tablet display market to reach 126.6 million units. |
| 2012-09-13 | Analyst: Non-Apple entities to rule tablet market WitsView forecasted that by 2015, platforms such as Windows and Android will gain a sizable market share, with Windows eating away a considerable portion of Android's market share away. |
| 2010-10-20 | Analyst says iPad boosting tablet PC sales Worldwide sales of tablet computers will surpass 200 million units in 2014, says Gartner Inc., with at least some of the growth driven by cannibalization of other sectors. |
| 2013-01-10 | AMD to churn out quad-x86 chips for tablet-notebooks Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated applications and games running on a Kabini-based ultrathin notebook and on a Temash convertible tablet-notebook. |
| 2013-01-02 | Ainol's new tablet runs Owl Series ATM7029 chipset Actions' ATM7029 chipset is armed with an ARM Cortex multi-core CPU, multi-core 3D GPU, full spec 1080p video encode/decode engine and USB2.0/3.0 PHY integration. |
| 2012-03-26 | $45 Singapore-made tablet to be used in India The educational device is a stripped-down version of a commercial tablet and although it has no operating system, it contains interactive math programs for fourth graders. |
| 2012-08-02 | $125 MIPS-based Jelly Bean tablet rolls in India Karbonn Mobile India's tablet features Android 4.1 that claims to be the lowest cost tablet on the market featuring the latest OS. |
| 2002-09-02 | Wolfson codecs perform simultaneous playback, record Wolfson Microelectronics Ltd has developed a line of audio codecs that can playback and record audio at the same time, but at different sampling rates. |
| 2012-10-29 | Will Apple stumble as it increases its iPad pace? Apple has started to push the pace to keep ahead of the tablet competition, but will it be able to maintain its increased strides. |
| 2012-08-08 | Weak demand, poor economy hurt LED market Despite rush orders in Q2 that kept LED chip and package makers' utilization rates high, the Q3 outlook for LED backlight market turns murky due to the European debt crisis and the weak demand in China. |
| 2011-06-07 | Voice chip enhances HD sound quality in tablets Audience has unveiled its latest earSmart eS305 chip that enables true HD voice quality in tablets and other devices over wideband networks. |
| 2011-11-15 | Upbeat market awaits tablets next year Despite the effects of the earthquakes in Japan and the global economic downturn, branded tablet shipments will grow 60 percent next year. |
| 2012-04-24 | Ultrabooks to benefit global NAND flash market According to IHS, NAND flash memory market is expected to achieve eight percent growth this year because of major sales drivers such as solid-state-drive equipped ultrabooks. |
| 2013-02-21 | Ultrabook, ultrathin to gain threefold market share increase This year, Ultrabooks and other ultrathin PCs will triple their penetration of the notebook market as their pricing comes down and consumers warm to the flashy convertible form factor, said IHS. |
| 2012-10-11 | Ultra-slim PC shipments to reach 65M by 2015 The devices will constitute a quarter of mobile PC shipments in 2015 but tablet shipments are expected to exceed notebook PC shipments by 2016. |
| 2013-02-25 | Transceiver targets 60GHz multi-Gb wireless comm Imec and Panasonic unveiled a low power beamforming transceiver chipset that can be used in low-cost, high-data rate solutions for battery-operated mobile devices. |
| 2006-07-04 | Touchscreen has noncontact sensing, fingerprint reading Motion Computing's LS800 is a slate PC built around a central design tenet—a pen-input screen. This article examines how this technology works. |
| 2012-04-30 | Touch controller market to hit $7.7B in 2016 According to the market research firm, smartphones, tablets and many types of information appliances are driving the demand and acceptance of common touchscreens, for portable and functional electronics. |
| 2012-11-16 | Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand back in business Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand has started shipping components manufactured at its Bangkadi facility a year after catastrophic floods. |
| 2012-10-05 | Tight supply ups NAND flash contract price DRAMeXchange revealed that due to tightening supply and Q4 restocking demand for smartphones and tablets, 2HSep. mainstream NAND flash contract prices have increased by about 7.5-11 per cent. |
| 2011-11-21 | TI, Samsung, Hynix fill Kindle Fire's interior The electronics manufacturers are sure to gain as the tablet is poised to sell as many as five million units in Q4. |
| 2012-11-15 | TI drops 1,700 workers in OMAP realignment A month after detailing plans to retarget its R&D for its OMAP line on embedded markets, Texas Instruments has announced it will cut about 1,700 jobs. |
| 2012-10-12 | Telecom segments to lead top-growing IC markets this year IC Insights forecasted that NAND, 32bit MCUs and auto-special purpose logic are among the fastest growing segments in the overall IC market. |
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