Intel to Phase Out Current Atom Cherry Trail Series With Slightly Faster Refresh
Intel has released a product change notification (PCN) for the current Atom Cherry Trail chips, X5 Z8300, X5 Z8500 and the X7 Z8700. They are to be phased out next year with newer Cherry Trail chipsets that have slightly faster turbo boosts. The graphics naming scheme of these chips has also been changed reflecting Intel’s new naming. They will now be called Intel HD 400 series graphics (12 ...[Read More]
Chuwi to Release Fourth Cherry Trail Tablet?
At the end of their Weibo press event today, Chuwi posted this last image. It would seem they are working on a 4th Cherry Trail model? I would love to see a Core M from Chuwi, but my guess is maybe they are working an 11.6″ 1920 x 1080 tablet to compete with the Teclast X16 Power & X16 Pro models? With either an Atom X5 Z8500 or even a X7 Z8700 SoC, 4GB of Ram and a larger keyboard dock ...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi8 Pro to ship with USB 3 Type-C port
From Chuwi’s Weibo press event today, they have confirmed the Hi8 Pro will feature a USB 3 Type-C port. This will be the first Chinese tablet to come with this new connector, as far as I can tell it’s USB 3.0 Type C and not USB 3.1 (The Asus Transformer Book T100HA has USB 3.1 Type C) if anyone understands Chinese can you please confirm it’s 3.0 or 3.1? Points of note: Same desig...[Read More]
Chuwi Hi8 Pro
The Chuwi Hi8 Pro is the successor to the popular Atom bay Trail Z3736 Hi8. The Hi8 Pro shares the same design as the Hi8, but it has an upgraded Atom Cherry Trail X5 Z8300 1.84Ghz SoC with Intel Gen8 graphics and 12 EU cores. A bump in graphics performance over the Hi8. The screen also remains unchanged with the same 16:10 ratio 1920 x 1200 panel. One new feature of the Hi8 Pro is it the microUSB...[Read More]
