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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

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Central processing unit

The central processing unit is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in...

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ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

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Tablets

Product	Maker	Operating system	Display size (in)	Resolution, aspect ratio Aspect ratio (image) The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...	System on chip	Memory (GB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... )	Storage (GB)	Storage expansion	WAN available
Adam Adam tablet The Adam Tablet is a tablet computer designed by Bangalore-based firm Notion Ink. The worldwide launch occurred on December 18, 2010 via a video released by Notion Ink detailing their Eden Interface...	Notion Ink Notion Ink Notion Ink is an Indian company that designs tablets PCs and other computing products. The company announced its prototype Adam tablet on December 18, 2009.- History :...	Android	10.1	1024x600, 5:3	Nvidia Tegra 250	1	8	microSD Secure Digital Secure Digital is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association for use in portable devices. The SD technology is used by more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models, and is considered the de-facto industry standard.Secure Digital...	yes/3G (3G is optional)
Archos 101 Archos 101 The ARCHOS 101 Internet Tablet is part of the Archos Generation 8 range, distributed between 2010-11. It is a 10.1 inch Internet tablet with dual-boot capability supporting Android and Ångström GNU/Linux operating systems out of the box...	Archos Archos Archos is a French consumer electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also Greek for 'master'...	Android	10.1	1024x600, 5:3	OMAP 3630	0.256	8/16	microSD	no
BlackBerry PlayBook BlackBerry PlayBook The BlackBerry PlayBook is a tablet computer by Research In Motion , best known for the BlackBerry smartphone. It competes against Apple's iPad and a slew of Android-powered tablets....	Research In Motion Research In Motion Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...	BlackBerry Tablet OS BlackBerry Tablet OS BlackBerry Tablet OS is an operating system based on the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system designed to run Adobe AIR and BlackBerry WebWorks applications...	7	1024x600, 5:3	OMAP 4430	1	16/32/64	no	no
Eee Pad Transformer ASUS Eee Pad Transformer The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer announced at CES 2011 and launched on March 30, 2011. The Transformer design includes an optional docking keyboard.- Features :...	ASUS ASUS ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...	Android	10.1	1280x800, 16:10	Tegra 250	1	16/32	microSD	No
Galaxy Tab	Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...	Android	7	1024x600, 5:3	S5PC110	0.512	16/32	microSD	Optional 3G
Galaxy Tab 10.1	Samsung	Android	10.1	1280x800, 16:10	Nvidia Tegra 2	1	16/32/64	SD/USB with adapters	Optional 3G/4G (Verizon)
iPad IPad The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...	Apple	iOS IOS iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...	9.7	1024x768, 4:3	Apple A4	0.256	16/32/64	no	3G
iPad 2 IPad 2 The iPad 2 is the second and current generation of the iPad, a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple. It serves primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, presentations and web content, and is available in black or white...	Apple	iOS	9.7	1024x768, 4:3	Apple A5	0.512	16/32/64	no	3G
Streak Dell Streak Dell Streak 5 is a smartphone/tablet PC hybrid from Dell that uses the Android operating system. It comes with a capacitive touchscreen and two cameras, a 5MP one with dual-LED flash on the back and a VGA-resolution one on the front for video calling; both are capable of video.The development...	Dell Dell Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...	Android	5	800x480, 16:9	QSD8250	0.512	2	microSD	yes
Streak 7	Dell	Android	7	800x480, 16:9	Nvidia Tegra 2	?	16	?	HSPA+
TouchPad HP TouchPad The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer which was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard. The HP TouchPad was launched on July 1, 2011, in the United States; July 15 in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany; and August 15 in Australia....	HP	webOS	9.7	1024x768, 4:3	APQ8060	1	16/32	no	Unreleased
ViewSonic G Tablet ViewSonic G Tablet The ViewSonic G Tablet is an Android-based tablet produced by ViewSonic Corporation, a manufacturer and provider of visual technology. It first appeared for consumer purchase at Sears on 1 November 2010....	ViewSonic ViewSonic ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors....	Android	10.1	1024x600, 5:3	Nvidia Tegra 2	0.512	16	microSD	no
Xoom Motorola Xoom The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES 2011 on January 5, 2011. It was the first tablet to be sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Verizon branded Xoom was the first tablet to run Android 3.1 Honeycomb, however the 3.1 update has not yet been provided...	Motorola Motorola Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...	Android	10.1	1280x800, 16:10	Nvidia Tegra 2	1	32	?	Optional 3G/4G
HTC Flyer HTC Flyer The HTC Flyer is a tablet computer by HTC Corporation. It was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2011 and released in May 2011. Unlike other tablets announced at MWC, the Flyer has a single-core 1.5 GHz CPU and runs Android 2.3.3 instead of 3.0...	HTC HTC -Companies:HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of handheld devicesHarrisonville Telephone Company, a telephone company in Waterloo, Illinois*Horry Telephone Cooperative, a telephone cooperative in Horry County, South Carolina...	Android	7	1024x600, 5:3	Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.5 GHz	1	16/32	yes	yes

Systems on chips

This table compares the system-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

(SoC) used in the above tablets.

Product	Maker	CPU core	Cores	Clock speed	GPU core
Apple A4 Apple A4 The Apple A4 is a package on package system-on-a-chip designed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung. It combines an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU with a PowerVR GPU, and emphasizes power efficiency. The chip commercially debuted with the release of Apple's iPad tablet; followed shortly by the iPhone 4...	Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...	Hummingbird, Intrinsity Intrinsity Intrinsity was a privately held Austin, Texas based fabless semiconductor company; it was founded in 1997 as EVSX on the remnants of Exponential Technology and changed its name to Intrinsity in 2000... designed Cortex-A8 ARM Cortex-A8 The ARM Cortex-A8 is a processor core designed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARM v7 instruction set architecture. Compared to the ARM11 core, the Cortex-A8 is dual-issue superscalar, achieving roughly twice the instructions executed per clock cycle....	1	1 GHz	PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies that develops hardware and software for 2D and 3D rendering, and for video encoding, decoding, associated image processing and Direct X, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and OpenCL acceleration.... SGX 535
Apple A5 Apple A5 The Apple A5 is a package on package system-on-a-chip designed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung to replace the Apple A4. The chip commercially debuted with the release of Apple's iPad 2 tablet, and also powers the iPhone 4S...	Samsung	Cortex-A9, custom designed chip	2	1 GHz	PowerVR SGX 543MP2
APQ8060	Qualcomm	Scorpion, Cortex-A9 based	2	1.2 GHz	Adreno 220
OMAP 3630	Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...	Cortex-A8	1	1 GHz	PowerVR SGX 530
OMAP 4430	Texas Instruments	Cortex-A9	2	1 GHz	PowerVR SGX 540
S5PC110	Samsung	Hummingbird	1	1 GHz	PowerVR SGX 540
Snapdragon QSD8250	Qualcomm Qualcomm Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...	Scorpion, Cortex-A8 based	1	1 GHz	Adreno 200
Tegra 2	Nvidia NVIDIA Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...	Cortex-A9	2	1 GHz	ULP GeForce GeForce GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units designed by Nvidia. , there have been eleven iterations of the design. The first GeForce products were discrete GPUs designed for use on add-on graphics boards, intended for the high-margin PC gaming market...

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Systems on chips

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