Intel's Bay Trail, Valleyview Atom Tablet Chip Roadmap Leaks
New chips will lead to faster tablets that sports higher memory capacity.
A leaked roadmap image has potentially revealed Intel's next generation of tablet chips, which will lead to devices becoming faster and boasting higher memory capacity.
The quad-core Bay Trail-T processor is due for a release in 2014, which is said to be due for a reveal during CES 2013, as well as the unveiling of the Bay Trail-T-powered tablets manufacturers are working on.
The chip will launch in a SoC codenamed Valleyview-T. Although it'll be a few years late to the market, the chip will compete with Nvidia's Tegra 3 and Qualcomm's S4.
The Bay Trail-T utilizes a 22nm core process (unlike the existing Clover Trail chip), with Intel promising that it'll result in half the the power requirements, leading to 50 to 60 percent improvement in performance for tablets.
Intel's slides suggests users will be able to play over 11 hours of video from one charge. Other features the new chips would bring is higher memory capacity, better audio quality and superior graphics performance. The leaked roadmap also confirms the option to include cameras that has the ability to record 3D video.

I can finally say that Atom provides adequate performance for most tasks.
This new chip for tablets should hopefully only improve my view on Atom.
The one thing not talked about is that its supposed to have Ivy Bridge class graphics instead of the current PowerVR based GPU which will be interesting to see in action on such a small form factor.
It all depends but from what we have seen so far, it might even compete with those.
The one thing about ARM is that while they are efficient power wise, hey are weak core wise. Currently a Intel Atom based mobile CPU competes very well against current dual cores and its only a single core with SMT.
This will be a quad core and most likely utilize SMT giving it 8 threads.
We will see in the coming months but still Intel is in it to win and they have the resources to push harder than the others, for example they control the entire process while NVidia has to rely on third parties for the manufacturing which can spiral for them (i.e. 32nm process for AMD via GF was not good to start).
It's not daft - Intel hasn't delivered baseband yet and currently (Without quad cores, out of order execution, better graphics core) Atoms are hungrier than current ARM core based chips - Promising this is all great and dandy but the proof is in the pudding - We haven't seen any of the new architecture so unless it's super efficient and a total departure from the current Atom architecture, it's going to be a tall order to deliver that in a competitive price/performance package.
It's not that I don't think Intel can do it, but judging by the way they have treated the Atom architecture in the past, I wouldn't place any bets on them delivering all of that.
All of this is also happening while their competition from Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, etc are releasing new chips.
Motherboards, SSDs, Ethernet NICs, WLAN products, HPC computing, need I continue?
afaik, intel is actually behind soc fabrication. they're selling 32nm socs while competitors are selling 28nm socs (quite a few of them being quadcore with powerful igpus) for tablets and smartphones. i could be wrong about this...
Not to mention they had to reel in AMD in the mid 2000's. I have little doubt that by the time the chips mentioned in this article are a reality, they will pwn ARM in performance and most likely efficiency too. Intel has a monopoly because they are good at competing.
A quad core IVB/Haswell Atom is going to be killer.
And Otellini's retiring, but Tom's won't tell you till next week i guess.
Kabini/Temash + TSMC = LOL @ Bay Trail - Valleyview
Plus they weren't priced competitively.
Also please stop saying quad core better than single core at all times. Architecture matters.
I suppose that's true in the discrete graphics card world, but the embedded HD 4000 graphics in the latest Ivy Bridge chips is actually a pretty decent graphics setup. If they can translate that level of performance over to the mobile chipset, they'll have a winner on their hands.