Intel will launch tablets and phones in 2011

Intel Corp is making a few enhancements to get its chips into the tablet computers and that smartphones using its processors will go on sale late next year as it rushes to catch up in the speedy growing mobile market.
The company is laying a bet that new chips which will ship next year will revitalize its mobile business, which has struggled to get off the ground among massive sales of Apple’s iPad tablets and smartphones using Google’s Android operating system.
Chief Executive Paul Otellini told analysts at a conference, “The consumer (tablet) products will roll out over the first half of next year.”
He said manufacturers have decided to use Intel chips in 35 tablet models, together with a few by now on the market. Also Otellini named brands including Dell, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Intel’s Atom chips ruled netbooks but smartphone and tablet makers by and large have abandoned them in good turn of additional power-efficient chips based on ARM architecture that are made by companies like Qualcomm and Marvell.