元器件交易网讯 6月9日消息，据外媒报道，英特尔总裁蕾妮·詹姆斯（Renée James）在Computex（台北国际电脑展）演讲中表示，英特尔正在利用其与台湾PC业的坚实关系，开拓出可观的平板市场份额。

　　展会期间，英特尔以制程工艺为核心，展示了基于Broadwell的14nm移动芯片及酷睿M（Core M）处理器。

　　英特尔最大的优势在于其将多种功能集成于一块硅片上的技术，14nm的产品将于今年晚些时候上市，同时詹姆斯表示英特尔可以“解决10nm”。

　　尽管博通退出基带市场，英特尔将继续其LTE业务及低成本的针对安卓智能机、平板的索菲亚平台。英特尔宣布将在2015年上班年推出四核LTE索菲亚产品，华硕也推出了一款基于该芯片的设计。

　　上周英特尔宣布与瑞芯微达成战略合作关系，以开发针对入门级平板的3G四核索菲亚。该产品也将于2015年上半年推出。

　　英特尔并没有使用自己的工厂生产索菲亚芯片，而是由台积电代工。此次英特尔网卡技术仅获得台积电工艺认证，因此集成网卡片上系统也需由台积电完成。

　　由于苹果、三星等大牌占据市场，台湾PC业在平板电脑设计上脚步放缓。低端市场由位于深圳等的中国小型公司占有。

　　在演讲中英特尔提到富士康正在设计自己的平板，该产品基于Bay Trail处理器并拥有高清屏幕。富士康强调紧凑的平板设计需要定制，其垂直设计和制造一体化的工艺可以在五个月内完成定制到产品的全过程。尽管有数据表明平板电脑的市场增长已经停滞，但该市场已经细分成多个不同领域，针对不同领域的产品均需定制——没有统一标准。（元器件交易网毛毛  摘译）

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　　Intel makes advances in Taiwan tabletmarket

　　Intel is leveraging its solid ties withTaiwan's PC industry to carve out a more substantial market share for tablets,as underscored in the keynote address of Intel President Renée James atComputex. During the event, the chip giant featured its process technology witha 14nm Broadwell-based mobile processor, the Intel Core M processor.

　　While no technical details were given forthe part, James also demonstrated the part in an Intel reference design for a"two-in-one" hybrid notebook/tablet. The design is only 7.2mm thickand only weighs 0.67kg with the keyboard detached. It achieves the thin designby going fanless.

　　The so-called Llama Mountain platform usesa 12.5-inch QHD (2,560px by 1,440px) display from Sharp. Asus will ship aversion of the reference design as the Transformer T300 Chi. Eliminating thefan saves space above the processor, but can only be achieved by keeping activepower below just a few watts.

　　This is a major milestone for Intel's Corefamily and does overlap with the low-power Atom-based BayTrail processors,which can also be used in fanless designs. But the Atom chips lack thesingle-thread performance of Intel's Core processors and do not have the samegraphics performance. No date was given to production shipments.

　　For Intel, its greatest advantage is usingits process technology to integrate more functions into one piece of silicon.The company's 14nm products are scheduled to ship later this year, and Jamessays Intel can "see clear to 10nm."

　　With its process lead, Intel expects todeliver lower power and higher performance than existing products—although notalways at the same time. James contends that process development fuels the ITindustry.

　　Still, the rest of the mobile processorindustry is doing quite nicely with 28nm. James's keynote also didn't accountfor innovation in design, like heterogeneous computing, that can deliver moreperformance with less power and fewer transistors.

　　While companies like Broadcom are lookingto exit the broadband market, Intel continues to invest in its LTE business andits low-cost SoFIA platform for Android smartphones and tablets. Intelannounced it will bring a quad-core SoFIA LTE part to market in the first halfof 2015, and Asus announced a design based on the chip.

　　This follows last week's announcement of astrategic partnership with China-based Rockchip to develop a 3G quad-core SoFIApart for entry-level tablets. The Intel/Rockchip part is also due in the firsthalf of 2015.

　　These SoFIA chips are manufactured by TSMCin its fabs and not Intel's own fabs. At this time, Intel's modem technology isonly qualified on TSMC's process, so any integrated modem SoC must also be madein TSMC's process.

　　Taiwan's PC industry has been slow to rampup tablet designs, as the big names like Apple and Samsung have dominated themarket, along with the large contract manufacturers like Foxconn. The low endof the market is being served by the smaller mainland China companies in placeslike Shenzhen.

　　Intel included Foxconn in the keynote,where the mainland China company stressed its design capability by talkingabout its own Bay Trail tablet with full HD display. Foxconn stressed thatcompact tablet designs require customisation, and its vertical design andmanufacturing integration makes it possible to bring custom designs intoproduction in only five months. While there's evidence that the tablet marketgrowth has stalled, the market itself is splintering into many differentsegments, requiring custom designs for each—there's no one-size-fits-all.

　　Rounding out the busy keynote was a newIntel PCIe SSD drive for datacenters, where it will compete with Fusion IO,Micron, SanDisk, and others. Separately, Intel's Devil's Canyon gaming platformshowed an Intel Core i7 processor with all four CPU cores running at 4GHz,which is great news for high-end gamers.