Asus Vivo Tab convertible uses Intel's new Clover Trail chip.
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Lest we forget, Intel is also trying to take on Apple and the iPad.
To date, we've heard a lot about the variety of Windows 8 that runs on power-sipping chips from suppliers like Nvidia. That's Windows RT.
For example, the first Microsoft Surface tablets, due by October 26, will run RT.
But RT does not run all of that old Windows software that businesses rely on. Intel's tablet platform, announced today, does.
"It brings over what you already have...millions of desktop applications," Chris Walker, general manager of Intel's application processors for the mobile and communications group, said in a phone interview.
And that makes Windows 8 tablets immediately usable at corporations. "I can access my back-end ERP [enterprise resource planning] system, updating it in real time, pulling down all of the corporate information I need and managing like I do on a notebook," he said.
And this "flexibility" between consumer and corporate worlds is what separates Intel-based Windows 8 tablets and convertibles from A... [Read more]
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