IDG News Service – launching Apple's iPad release will clear the way for many competing products this year, ARM executive stated, predicting not less than than fifty tablet PC devices will be released globally.
The coming flow of tablets has inspired ARM, Intel's nearest competitor in the sphere of mobile microprocessors, to rent more exhibition area at the Computex trade show of electronics held in Taipei this year to present the devices, together with others electronic devices that use ARM processing cores.
During a Taipei press conference, the global mobile computing ODM manager of ARM, Roy Chen, said, the first release tablets will be implemented in the second quarter and added that much more else expected in the third quarter.
He noticed that many tablet-like PC devices will be made in China, but rivals everywhere plan to start tablets this year too, including the largest telecommunications network operators. He declined to voice those companies.
Roy Chen said that production of many table-like devices will be started in China, but many rival companies plan to launch same devices this year also, including the 10 biggest telecommunications network operators. He refused to voice the name of those companies.
ARM presented two tablet devices at the news conference in Taipei, both working Google's Android mobile operation system.
There is the other tablet with a smaller size of screen than the device of Compal Electronics, It’s name is Armadillo. It also equipped with ARM cores in chips produced by Freescale Semiconductor, and used the Android OS, but was on display showing a fast running Japanese software maker’s system, Ubiquitous. The software named QuckBoot and its working in a moment.
