Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Intel's tablet processor shipments for 2014 are expected to reach only 30 million units, accounting for about 10% of total tablet processor shipments and lower than the company's forecasted 40 million units as demand for Windows 8.1 and Bay Trail-T-based tablets are not as strong as expected recently, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Intel's Bay Trail-T processors for the Android operating system will be released at the end of December 2013 or in early January 2014, the sources said.
Currently, only limited Intel-based Android tablets such as Intel's Fonepad series, are available in the market, most vendors still adopt ARM-based solutions from Qualcomm, MediaTek, Rockchip, Allwinner Technology or Nvidia for their devices, the sources noted.
China's white-box players will be the major clients of Intel's Bay Trail-T for Android solutions initially with completed devices to be available in February 2014. So far, Intel has not yet landed any orders from first-tier brand vendors.
Intel estimates its table processor shipments will reach 10 million units in 2013.
Among Intel's 30 million tablet processor shipments in 2014, about three million units are expected to come from orders from Intel's education tablets manufactured by BYD or Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the sources added.
By: DocMemory
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