Intel's Oak Trail tablets to be unveiled

There are several companies getting ready with their Oak Trail processor based tablets, and these include Acer, Asus and MSI; but most of the tablets first off the mark will be from Chinese companies.

Tablet PCs based on Intel's Oak Trail processor are likely to be displayed next week in the Computex Trade Show in Taipei. 

The name of the processor, Oak Trail, is actually a code name for the Intel Atom Z670 processor designed for tablets. The ARM based processors have grabbed large market share among mobile devices. 

Intel chips in smartphones in 2012

The company has been promising smartphone chips for a long time, but hasn't delivered on its promise so far. There were speculations that Intel may start making ARM chips also, but it is obviously in no mood to pay royalty to ARM.

Smartphones based on Intel's chips will be ready by as soon as next year, the chief executive of the biggest chipmaker has said.

"You'll see the first Intel-based phones in the market in the first part of next year," Chief Executive Paul Otellini of the company was quoted as saying by the Reuters.