Intel’s Bay Trail Chips Features

A New generation of processors from Intel and why they matter for consumers – the Bay Trail chips.We use smartphones and tablets that help us discover new things at blazing fast speeds. But how much do we know about the technology that’s hidden inside them? We only know, for example, that the latest processor is the greatest one to have, but so few know what are the advances over the past generation. Maybe that’s why Apple has decided to use the Retina Display moniker for the high-resolution panels that its products use – it’s much easier for consumers to digest.

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new generation of processors from Intel and why they matter for consumers – the Bay Trail chips. Intel is world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, if we look at revenue statistics, so it has the power to hugely influence a market. Many still associate Intel with PCs, but the American company has plunged into the mobile world, as well, with a series of chips aimed at tablets.

As expected, Intel hopes that the “Bay Trail” family of processors can boost the performance of Windows and Android-based tablets but in the same time keep battery life at a very good level. What’s interesting is that, at the recent Developer Forum event, Intel said it expects the Bay Trail processors to  power tablets, “two-in-one” convertible tablets and even PC devices. This means that Intel has managed to develop an architecture that allows it to be both on desktop machines and tablets. We should see devices with Bay Trail processors by the end of this year.

Intel’s answer to ARM

The Bay Trail family of processors represent a 22-nm system-on-chip (SoC) with 3D tri-gate transistors based on Intel’s Silvermont architecture which Intel announced at the beginning of May, this year. Silvermont is a SoC processor especially designed to be low power, thanks to this micro architecture.

Intel also has plans for the smartphone market, where it has the Merrifield family of processors, but it’s much harder to compete there. Intel’s Atom Z3000 Processor Series, as Bay Trail is codenamed, will replace the previous Atom Z2760 (Clover Trail) and the Atom Z2560 (Clover Trail+). Samsung’s 10 inch Galaxy Tab 3 Android tablet was using that.

You should also know that there are three different families: Bay Trail M, Bay Trail T and Bay Trail D. The Bay Trail T, as you probably guessed it by now, is the family for tablets. The Bay Trail M product line is designed for touch-based notebook computers and convertible two-in-one devices. The Bay Trail D processors are for entry-level desktops and represent the smallest of Intel’s chips for desktops.