Windows 8: the shelves and hybrid Intel for November?

According to some anonymous sources, the launch of Windows 8 should be around the month of November, when will emerge equipped with shelves of the new OS and an Intel chip.

CNet.com journalists are safe, a first range of Windows 8 tablet equipped with Intel processors will be on the market in November. According to one of the reliable sources of this writing, the time schedule for the launch of the Windows 8 stamped products is relatively tight. Microsoft wants to be the new OS on all fronts, with the support of Intel and AMD processors, as well as ARM chips, and this Office, but also tablets and laptops.

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This latter market, Intel would have ambitious plans. Namely offering a selection of at least twelve products with partners about Windows 8, including a good half of shelves x 86 operating a processor Atom platform Clover Trail (of the dual-core engraved in 32 nm). The other half would be hybrid products, namely touch laptop usable as of tablets.

Finally, CNet.com says that Intel is working hard on Bay Trail, the next Atom platform cache chip carved 22 nm (such as the Ivy Bridge) and which includes a smart 3 G / 4 G and a new graphical circuit. There is more than to wait for the formalization of these machines to see if the sources in question are right.

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DirectX problems delaying new Atom to november?

Last week there were various rumors that Intel announced the launch of its new generation Atom processors would postpone from september to november. In the meantime, it is suggested that this is due to driver problems with the new DirectX 10.1 video chips in the processors. This would be that such far-reaching introduction possible only DirectX 9 graphics supported will be.

The next generation of Atoms bears the code name Cedar Trail and will as usual his way into netbooks and nettops. Although the chips will be combined with the already existing NM10 chipset, they have a number of innovations on board. The main of this are the presence of Intel's 64-bit instruction set (EM64T) in the D-models and the switch to PowerVR video chips, the PowerVR SGX545 to be exact. The latter now seems only a spanner in the works.

Although initially it was suspected that the driver problems were related to accelerate multimedia, speaking the latest rumors of a number of DirectX-hordes that still with Microsoft, the developer of the API, to be taken. The PowerVR SGX545 can handle with DirectX 10.1, but aforementioned issues would Intel possible emergency Affairs at the launch only DirectX 9 drivers ready to have. However, it is still unclear why Intel not opt for the reference drivers from Imagination Technologies, the producer of PowerVR chips.

Also it seems that the driver team of Intel still some other creases smooth ironing, because despite the added support for 64-bit operating systems, 64-bit DirectX 9 drivers even until the end of this year. Also will the Wireless Display drivers in the first instance does not yet support the latest features of the wireless standard. This will only be in the first quarter of 2012 come available, at the same time with Smart Connect, a technology that allows a netbook in hibernation still emails can receive.

The prices of the new Atom D variants were also known as ago already and are determined on respectively $ 42 for the dual-core D2500 and $ 52 for the faster D2700 with HyperThreading.

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