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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| 2011-03-11 | Power ICs boast standby power of less than 10mW The NXP GreenChip power ICs are designed for adapters for mobile devices such as cellphone chargers, tablets and notebooks, as well as major home appliances or white goods. |
| 2011-04-13 | Portable computers steadily outpace desktops Notebooks and tablets are steadily eating into desktop PC sales, prompting analysts to lower their 2011 desktop PC forecasts and project flat sales for the segment. |
| 2012-08-14 | PMICs optimize power for i.MX 6-based devices The reference platform from Dialog Semiconductor optimizes power requirements of tablets, infotainment systems, media hubs and other smart devices based on Freescale multicore applications processors. |
| 2012-05-15 | Platform tests A/V interface functionality, compliance Rohde & Schwarz's VTC platform tests the A/V interfaces of smart phones, tablets and STBs, including HDMI and MHL, providing realtime protocol and media content analysis. |
| 2012-06-13 | Phablet shipments top 208 million by 2015 Market analyst ABI Research forecasts that phablets—hybrid devices larger than smartphones but smaller than tablets—will become more popular as HTC, LG and Huawei begin to offer the devices in 2012. |
| 2012-03-15 | Personal cloud to dethrone PCs by 2014 Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices. |
| 2010-06-30 | Panel: Smart devices to flood consumer market Consumer electronics analysts forecast that new media tablets and smartbooks will soon flood the market with more than 163 million to be shipped in 2015. |
| 2012-05-24 | On-ground molded interconnect antenna touts tiny footprint Molex's 2.4GHz SMD on-ground antenna weighs in at only 0.03g measuring 3 x 3 x 4mm for tablets, headsets, smart meters and other portable electronic devices running Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee and other wireless standards. |
| 2008-03-06 | Nokia, Microsoft bring Silverlight to smart phones Nokia and Microsoft have partnered to make Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. |
| 2010-12-20 | Multicore silicon GPU exceeds 1GHz Vivante announced that licensees of its GC series architecture have exceeded 1GHz in clock frequencies. The GPUs target next-gen game consoles, tablets, smartphones, automotive displays and home entertainment apps. |
| 2012-09-07 | MOSFETs, diodes aimed at wireless charging Toshiba's small signal middle power type Schottky barrier diodes and dual N-channel MOSFETs target wireless power transfer applications for devices such as mobile phones, tablets and notebooks. |
| 2012-02-03 | Mobile tech to boost smart device market thru 2015 Portable consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets and notebooks will grow with CAGR of 25.7 percent in the next three years. |
| 2012-01-18 | Mobile processor supports Windows 8 Designed specifically for tablets, TI's OMAP4470 platform claims to offer rich multimedia, end-to-end security and powerful multitasking capabilities. |
| 2011-12-29 | Mobile investments more lucrative than PC in 2012 Canaccord Genuity expects to see continued strong sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad, despite the upcoming launch of a slew of competing tablets from competitors in 2012. |
| 2011-04-29 | MIPS gains early access to Honeycomb MIPS has started porting Honeycomb to its architecture, allowing it to develop MIPS-based tablets and Google TV products, and belying claims that MIPS will be excluded from the Android ecosystem. |
| 2011-02-15 | MIMO Wi-Fi SoC offers beamforming, Bluetooth 4.0 Marvell's Avastar 88W8797 SoC is an 802.11n 2x2 dual-band Wi-Fi solution touting Wi-Fi Tx beamforming technology, Bluetooth 4.0 low energy capabilities and FM Tx/Rx for smart phones and tablets. |
| 2012-07-18 | Microsoft Office gets Internet cloud boost The suite includes Microsoft Word for documents, as well as programs for spreadsheets and other functions, adapted for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. |
| 2013-01-15 | MHP-TA TCO device ready for ultra-thin electronics The new MHP-TA series offers over temperature protection for high-capacity Lithium Polymer (LiP) and prismatic cells in media tablets, notebook PCs and electronic readers. |
| 2010-11-11 | MEMS device claims complete inertial measurement When used with a magnetometer, the device provides nine-degree-of-freedom functionality for smart phones, touchscreen tablets, 3D TV remote controls, gaming consoles, DSCs and video cameras. |
| 2012-08-31 | LTE progress boosts electronics convergence 4G LTE will play a pivotal role in the development of the wireless industry by driving the convergence of electronic devices, including smartphones, media tablets and mobile PCs. |
| 2011-04-04 | Logic chips boast small size NXP releases what it claims are the smallest logic packages designed for portable handheld devices such as smartphones, tablets and SD cards. |
| 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. |
| 2012-04-11 | JV aims at a more secure mobile transaction ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient created a joint venture that aims to deliver secure mobile environments for tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones. |
| 2011-12-29 | Is Apple ready for iTV? Will Apple Inc. be able to crystallize the concept of the connected TV into a must-have product as it has done with MP3 players, smartphones and tablets? |
| 2012-10-25 | iPad mini to double 7in tablet market in 2012, 2013 Global sales of tablets with displays in the 7in size range are expected to boom by about 100 per cent this year to 34 million units, up from 17 million in 2011. |
| 2012-03-15 | iPad king of NAND flash usage sales Apple's continued domination of the sales of NAND flash for media tablets reflects not only the iPad's commanding market share lead, but its extensive memory usage. |
| 2011-03-07 | iPad 2 joins dual-core club Calling 2011 "the year for dual-core tablets," experts believe the extra horsepower provided by the A5 SoC will help transform tablets from content consumption to content creation systems. |
| 2011-09-16 | Intel shows off its progress in its ultrabook line The company rallied for the future of notebooks and tablets. |
| 2012-09-18 | Intel pitches Haswell as next-gen tablet platform Intel EVP confirms that its fourth-generation core processor Haswell is capable of supporting tablets and convertible PCs. |
| 2011-01-19 | Intel keeps positive outlook despite naysayers Even as analysts harp on its lack of an ARM-based CPU offering, poor traction in smartphones and continued reliance on x86 microprocessors, Intel remains optimistic about its short- and long-term prospects, emboldened by its push into media tablets and smartphones, the continued success of its server chips and the growth of Internet traffic. |
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