Vice announced yesterday that it will present at CES 2013 a Windows 8 tablet with an AMD Z-60 processor. The tablet in question will be the result of combining two players that we rarely see linked to the world of tablets. Vizio is the # 1 seller of HD televisions in North America. AMD is famous for its low-power chips for computers and laptops and for its Radeon graphics processors that give great results. TO Z-60 APU we can attribute both characteristics to it.
Vizio until now had only presented an 8-inch tablet with an Android-based operating system that deserves little comment given that its strengths had to do with apps dedicated to content services that we do not have access to in Spain due to our damn legislation copyright. However, he now announces a 11,6 inch tablet with the operating system Windows 8 just a couple of days from the start of CES in Las Vegas. The technical specifications that they have let us know are few but interesting. First of all, we will have a 1080p Full HD display. This is curious given that the processor it carries is low consumption and it is difficult to think how this fits with the energy consumption of this image standard. Second, and less conspicuous, is random access memory with 2 GB of RAM and the storage of 64 GB. In this sense very normal and average. Vizio hasn't let us know more about specs or pricing.
Of the processor yes that we knew a few months ago and the press received it with considerable skepticism regarding its performance with mobile devices. From the American company it was said that Z-60 will maintain the classic energy efficiency at AMD, which will support Full HD up to 1920 x 1080p, which will support output HDMI and that you can combine SoCs with Radeon graphics processors that will make it great graphically, so we hope great results in games. Another curious fact about this processor and others that could come from the company is that will be able to load more than half a million Android applications in Windows 8 through a combined analysis of access conditions and regulatory barriers. agreement with Bluestacks that he had invented a software to be able to bring apps from Google Play to PC. AMD App Zone will make all these applications available to tablet users with this Microsoft operating system. So far we have hardly seen tablets with these processors except for Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q572.
Source: Engadget