Lenovo Acer releases Wintel Tablet PC in third quarter

Upstream supply chain News says Lenovo and Acer, a front-line PC maker, are planning to release a tablet based on the Microsoft Windows 8 system and the intel® Clover Trail Processor Configuration (Wintel) in the three quarter of this year. Intel is planning to release the Medfield processor specifically designed for Android smartphones and tablets in the second half of this year, but because the processor is unable to counterbalance the ARM processor in performance and energy-saving metrics, PC vendors are placing more hope on the Clover Trail processor, the source said. Lenovo Acer's third-quarter release of Wintel tablet computer News predicts that Wintel tablets will have huge potential in the corporate market, and that users in the field are more familiar with and more demanding of Microsoft's development applications. ipad shipments, which account for 60% of the tablet computer market last year, are expected to grow by 50% per cent year-on-year, and Apple will continue to maintain its market share of about 60% of the tablet computer this year.