Via Technologies Inc., the computer processor company from Taiwan, expects the new tablets for $ 100 USD or ga up to one million rupiah, which uses the Via chip will reach the United States in the second half of 2010, could become a cheaper alternative for the iPad.
Approximately five different models, starting price from $ 100 to $ 150, will be available, according to Richard Brown, vice president of marketing at Via, who convey it in an interview.The new computer, made by a Chinese company, will run the Google Android operating system.
Diotaki Via chip devices will be joined by a flood of competitors iPad, a tablet device that Apple introduced last month. Apple has managed to sell one million devices in the first month of sales, indicating that consumers may have been ready to receive the product type of the tablet after years of getting less enthusiastic response. Apple iPhone already compete with Android in the market for smartphones, especially Android device from HTC Corp and Motorola Inc.
"The market tablet was approved by Apple," said Brown. "Android is bringing a lot of diversity to the market. There are different size Android device to display a different design and use of different ways. "
Popularity iPad, which starts from $ 499, will spur increased six-fold in the delivery of tablet computers globally in 2014, according to research firm IDC. Shipping worldwide will increase to 46 million from 7.6 million this year, who reported from Framingham, Massachusetts based IDC last week. We can not expect there will be a total of 398 million portable personal computer to be marketed in the year 2014.
Apple iPad itself is running on chip technology from ARM, the processor type that dominates the Android phone and iPhone.
Brown said, Via offers an ARM-based semiconductors for the new tablet. The Company also holds a license from Intel Corp. to create a chip that works on X86 technology, the standard used in most personal computer processors in the world.
"Android is a free mobile platform open-source," said a spokesman for Google, cassia Chmielinski in e-mail. He declined to comment on the Via product announcements it.
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