Windows 8, ARM Tablets and PCs

Prototype ARM-based Windows 8 slates and smartbooks are coming out of the woodwork. Foxconn, Wistron and Quanta all unveiled prototype hardware for the new OS, with chips from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and NVIDIA powering their OS, including NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal-El,the quadcore ultra graphics warlord, which got both a tablet and a super-slim prototype notebook to call its own. Dell’s also had an XPS development station up on stage, which Microsoft used to demo the UI,  it is extremely bulky and ugly as such, but it suggests that Dell’s also likely to have a portable Windows 8 machine at some point. For its part, Qualcomm is promising a chip that can instantly wake from sleep, and one of the devices showed that USB host support works fine and dandy. Unfortunately, none of these machines will make their way to market, but it’s nice to know that the OEMs care enough to show their solidarity here.

Source: Engadget