Apple will launch Tablet PC in 2010

In Apple'sInsider's article, after nearly four years of research, Apple has decided to announce the Tablet PC rumored earlier.

The research project has been put into research since 2006, slower than the iPhone and iPod Touch research and development plans. Just like rumors, this Tablet PC has a 10 "screen, 3G network support, can be considered an exaggerated version of the iPod Touch, will be priced at a level between the iPhone and cheap MacBook.

Reportedly, the original idea of ​​the product Steve Jobs - CEO Apple, he holds the entire executive power to supervise product research work. In his strict requirements, in the last 2 years at least 6 times of the product. After each rework, the whole project seemed to be frozen, because all important design stages had to be recalculated.

The research staff with Steve Jobs all admitted, they seemed desperate, feeling that with the boss's perfect requirements, this product would never be able to hit the market.

But in the past half year, the project has made positive changes. During Steve Jobs's time of convalescence, whether at home, office or bedside, he supervised every step of the project himself. Finally, a design was accepted by him. He included the product in the company's plan in 2010, which is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2010.

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According to the latest insider news, the look of the Tablet PC is probably the same as the iPhone. But according to Apple's insider information, known to be unhappy about the battery's ability to work, Apple soon plans to use the Atom processor.

Then, in 2008, they spent $ 278 million to buy semiconductor design factory PA Semi, aimed at ARM architecture with superior capabilities in power consumption, preparing production chips for real products. This product.

Recently, the source said, after PASemi was acquired by Apple, the team split into two groups, one of which was in charge of processing chips for iPhone and iPod Touch, the other group focused on projections. Tablet PC project.

Of course, because Apple has not yet had a semiconductor manufacturing factory, although Apple wants to use its own processor chip, it must still order at third factories such as Samsung, or semiconductor manufacturing plant. Taiwan.