Intel swots Windows RT aside, previews Bay Trail

Intel made a variety of announcements during its CES 2013 press conference, each with varying degrees of significance.

Top of the list in terms of forward-looking events for the company was the debut of Bay Trail, the next-generation 22nm quad-core Atom tablet platform for tablets.

It has more than double the computing performance of the existing Medfield Atom Processor Z2760 platform, but it won't appear in devices until late in the year and will usher in designs as thin as 8mm.

Among the other announcements was a new smartphone platform for emerging markets plus details of thinner and lighter Ultrabooks.

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