Personal insights about touch screen PC wave 2010 from within China market

1. UMPC from BOARD to SLATE

2. UMPC –> SLATE PC I After netbooks the touch screen computers are getting very popular now. Apple®with his IPAD® initiated this move. Many tablet PCs were coming to market with various operating systems. China well known as copier tried to ride that wave from beginning. Cheap products were created and sold by many makers.Only few companies were considering in quality and moved the Intel® Pinetrail® path with their systems and with a Microsoft® operating system in dual boot.

3. 10 “ Multi Touch History –Still mass production in many places Starting from the “Big Iphone” which you can buy allover in China with Intel’s® N270 and N280 we integrated the N450 within this form factor. As in netbooks with their poor performance this step brought a great boost. But the design was not useful as violating various Apple® patents. KEY FACTS Support G-Sensor, multi-touchscreen， 3G surf internet + 3G call Intel® Atom™CPU N450 @1.66GHz Intel®NM10 - Integrated Intel®GMA3150 10.1.“ LVDS LCD - Max Resolution1024*600 2.5” SATA Hardisk（160G-320G) DDR2 Max 2GB Realtek®High Definition Audio / 2 in 1 Audio Microphone + earphoneport ACPI V2.0, S0, S3, S4, S5 3000mAh, LION Battery Size: 290×150×18mm Weight: <1.1Kg * Power Switch, Menu Button *4 in 1 Card ReaderMS/SD/MMC Card etc * Mini PCI-E portsupports 802.11B/G wifi* bluetooth * 3*USB2.0 PORT fullsize* VGA Video Output* Web cam 1.3 Mpix

4. UMPC –> SLATE PC II Here in China the Windows® XP is very popular, but Windows®7 was our demand. On Intel‘s® Atom™N2xx all was too slow, like it also could be found in the netbooks of that type.Whereas there the Intel® Atom™Dxxx dual cores (double energy consumption and heat) were used, the breakthrough in touch PC happened with the Intel® Atom™N450 showing up.Still only few companies produce such Touch-UMPC on that platform type with many fold extensions and optional items (Wireless, USB, Sound, 3G, BT, big HDD).

7. 10” Multi Touch The 10” SLATE – MP September 2010 KEY FACTS G-Sensor, multi-touchscreencapacitive， 3G surf internet + 3G call Intel® Atom™ CPU N455 Intel®NM10 - Integrated Intel®GMA3150 10.1." 16:9 - Max Resolution 1024*600 SSD (16GB, 32GB, 64GB) DDR3 Max 2GB Realtek®High Definition Audio / 2 in 1 Audio Microphone + earphoneport TD-CDMA/EVDO/WCDMA ACPI V2.0, S0, S3, S4, S5 3200mAh, Li-Polymer Pack Battery Size: 275×170×14mmWeight: 0.685Kg* SIM Card: One * Card Reader: Micro SD * Mini PCI-E portsupports 802.11b/g wifi* bluetooth * standard USB2.0 PORT * DVI Video Output* Web CAM 1.3 Mpix This new version keeps the form factor by reducing the thicknessto slim 14mm slate. Special touch screen is used. Thickness, weight are reduced and battery life is longer > 4 hours now.

8. UMPC –> SLATE PC VI Thermal issues jeopardize the Intel® Atom™ N475 or N550 use in such thin slates and expect smart answers.Anyway a big leap will be the Intel® Atom™ Oaktrail® path with N6xx CPU’s coming up, which will allow much better battery life.