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Intel Corp. announced at Computex plans for its next-generation Atom processor for tablets and netbooks. Oak Trail is an integrated SoC that will sample in early 2011 sporting a 50 percent reduction in average power consumption and support for high definition video, Intel said.

Like Intel's existing Atom chips, Oak Trail will support Windows 7, Google Android and the merged Intel and Nokia mobile Linux software called MeeGo. As part of an Intel keynote at Computex, Acer chief executive Gianfranco Lanci said his company will make netbooks and tablets based on Oak Trail and MeeGo.

Intel's Oak Trail chip is another data point in Intel's effort to extend beyond its traditional PC business, in part through a new system-on-chip initiative the company has pushed for several years. However to date most of Intel's Atom business has been in netbooks which have designed in 50 million of the low power x86 processors in the past two years, Intel said.

Intel tips next-gen Atom SoC for tablets