In recent months, Intel has been using every opportunity to talk about Bay Trail platform, which will make notebooks and convertible devices with a touch screen running Windows 8 costing only $ 200.
Intel vice president in the sixth of May this year, will speak about the features of Silvermont architecture, which formed the base of Bay Trail and Merrifield processors. Although formally, these processors are designed for use in tablets and smartphones, they may in fact be used in microservers, and data centers. Compared to presented in 2008 Atom processor, which are used for power saving architecture with serial execution of commands Silvermont generation processors will use order execution, which will make them more productive. A new generation of Atom processors will also receive performance graphics system.
Smartphones based on Merrifield processors will appear in the beginning of next year. Devices based on Bay Trail will be released at the end of this year. Thus, in the coming Monday Intel will only set the announcement stage for these processors.