Intel also ended up using a different graphics core than it uses on its current Atom chipsets, which resulted in the graphics improvements, Johnson said.

Intel announced last year the Oak Trail chip in response to the growing demand for tablets. The company is battling Arm, whose processors go into most tablets today, including Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

Intel initially offered its netbook chips for tablets, but companies opted to use chips based on Arm processors, which are highly power efficient.

Oak Trail will be a competitive tablet platform, said David Kanter [CQ], an analyst at Real World Technologies.

Intel wants to spread its x86 architecture across devices to bring together software compatibility, but it remains to be seen if tablet makers will bite, Kanter said.