iPad will take more than 75% of the market in tablets New Year's holidays

Tablet PC market is almost entirely owned by Apple. Even the strongest players and can not come close to such sales results. According to analysts not be able do Amazon Kindle Fire , made ​​its debut on the eve of any  Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet .

Competitors can not get close to Apple in the market "pills", which, in fact, and was created by Steve Jobs. In the III quarter of 2011 empire sold 11 million iPad - almost 75% of all purchased tablet devices. Serious contenders in this market there. The approaching Christmas holidays would allow Apple to further strengthen its position.

"We expect very good sales of iPad 2 during the holidays and expect that as against 11 million units in the quarter ended in September, will be sold 14 million units by the end of December," - said an analyst with Canaccord Genuity Michael Uolkli.

High-tech products are rarely able to take possession of such a significant market share. However, with Apple is not the first case: the millions others disagree iOS-device related to the category of cheap - and communicators iPhone media player iPod.

It is expected that by the end of this year, the market share of Apple's Tablet PC market, according to conservative projections will be 65% (in bold - 75%). The closest competitor Samsung will be able to "recapture" only 8%. Other manufacturers divide the remaining shares of 2-3% each.

Despite the emergence of rumors about the imminent "apple" third-generation tablet iPad 2 is still at the peak of his popularity.

Intel smartphone with Android 4.0 in the first half of 2012

Intel showed the IDF up a surf pad and smartphone, both of which ran Android operating system. Especially the phone who was standing in front of the camera attracted attention. Intel now says that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is optimized, and ready for x86.

The Tablet and smartphones Intel showed off drove with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread and really reminded many of the ARM-based devices on the market. But Intel is ready to take on the ultra mobile market with its x86 Atom architecture and has a couple of months now begun working closely with Google.

Intel jumped Thus the MeeGo when Nokia chose to instead focus fully on Windows Phone and now intends to make his dream come true with Google instead. The latest operating system from Google, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be ready to run on an x86 processor, and be optimized for its Atom architecture.

Intel plans to have the first smartphone out there with their 32nm Medfield SoC out there in the first half of next year. System processor will be based on their good old Atom architecture with a core. Cloverfield and associated devices that come with two cores on 32nm will take until later this year.

It also looks like that Intel put out their own restrictions on the Medfield-based tablets. Tablet with Medfield to be 8.9 mm thick and weighing under 680 grams, according to Intel, which puts them on par with other surf boards based on ARM.

With proper support for the Ice Cream Sandwich in the back there is not much that can prevent Intel from getting into the market. But ARM is already the largest and almost takes the whole smart phone and surf flat market, with a well established ecosystem so it's hardly easy. Especially now that the first quad-core system processors begin arriving.