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Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tabletbased on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, a Lenovo executivesaid. The release of an Intel-based ThinkPad tablet depends on whenMicrosoft releases Windows 8, said Dilip Bhatia, vice president andgeneral manager of the ThinkPad business unit, in an interview. Hedeclined to provide a specific date, though Windows 8 is expectedto come out later this year. Chips based on the x86 architecture such as processors from Intelprovide many advantages to business customers, who are Lenovo'stargets with ThinkPad tablets, Bhatia said.
"On the x86 architecture you get backward compatibility," Bhatiasaid. Windows 8 tablets with Intel chips support existing andlegacy applications already running on Windows, which is thedominant OS in the PC market. Intel later this year plans to release a tablet chip code-namedClover Trail, which will be released at the time Windows 8 becomesavailable. Intel's only potential competitor on Windows 8 is ARM,whose processors ship in most tablets today.
The touch-basedWindows OS will come in three versions -- Windows RT for ARM, andWindows 8 and Windows 8 Pro for x86 chips. Windows has grown up on x86 chips, raising questions about ARMcompatibility for existing Windows applications. Intel's CEO PaulOtellini last week said legacy x86 applications would not work on Windows on ARM, and Microsoft has said legacy x86 could not be used or emulated on Windows RT . Bhatia did not comment on whether Windows RT devices would beoffered by Lenovo, but said all options are being considered whendeveloping products.
Lenovo already offers tablets based on ARMprocessors, including the ThinkPad Tablet, which runs Google'sAndroid OS. Lenovo was the world's fourth largest tablet vendor in the first quarter of this year, according to IDC, behind Apple,Samsung and Amazon. Lenovo is the world's second-largest PC vendorthanks to growing shipments in home country China and an expansionof the worldwide distribution channel. The ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet could easily slip into the existingbase of ThinkPad PCs used in businesses, said David Daoud, researchdirector of personal computing at IDC. Lenovo maintains a 16percent to 18 percent market share in worldwide business PC salesdepending on the quarter, he said.
The ThinkPads are already popular in businesses, so users may optfor the Windows 8 tablet as a companion device in the enterprise ITenvironment, Daoud said. IT environments are coping with new usagemodels that involve app stores and input modes such as touch andvoice, and a Windows 8 tablet could be successful if users feelcomfortable with the OS and device. "If consumers are likely to move to a tablet-like environment asthey've done strongly on the iPad front, it's important for PCmakers with corporate clients to have a suite of products that fitinto the bring-your-own-device model," Daoud said. Lenovo is also building a cloud service so the company's PCs andmobile devices can access or exchange data through private orpublic clouds. Much like Apple's mobile device strategy, Lenovohopes to combine content, infrastructure, access devices andmiddleware as part of its cloud strategy.
The cloud service will belaunched later this year. ThinkPad laptops and tablets will be part of the cloud strategy,Lenovo's Bhatia said. "We've got a whole theme focused on the cloud," Bhatia said. Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductorsfor IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh.
Agam's e-mail address is agam_shah@idg.com. I am Network Switches writer, reports some information about medical equipment carts , lift chairs recliner.
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