Intel's Oak Trail appears in Motion Computing tablet

05.01.2011
Motion Computing on Tuesday showed off a Windows tablet with Intel's upcoming Oak Trail chip package, which is highly power efficient and has strong multimedia capabilities, a company executive said.

The Motion CL900 tablet includes a 10.1-inch screen and runs on a specialized Atom chip that Intel has designed for tablets. The chip runs at 1.5GHz, and has graphics accelerators that allow the Motion Computing tablet to play full 1080p high-definition video at 30 frames per second. Current Atom processors are able to support up to 720p video playback.

The tablet is based on the Windows 7 operating system, and can run for up to eight hours on a single battery charge, said Michael Johnson [CQ], senior vice president of product development at Motion Computing.

The longer battery life was made possible by changes that Intel has made at the chip level with Oak Trail, Johnson said.

The tablet was shown at a preview for press and analysts ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, which will be held in Las Vegas between January 6 and 9.

The chip has specialized hardware to quickly decode high-definition video, Johnson said. It also has decoders to accelerate the playback of MPEG files in Windows Media Player, he added.