Future Android tablets with Intel inside will approach two-digit pricing, packing a new -- as yet unannounced -- chip, Intel said Tuesday.
Upcoming Atom-based tablets will appear at the $100 price point, Chris Walker, general manager for tablet processors at Intel. Walker was echoing comments made earlier in the day by CEO Brian Krzanich.
Though Intel Atom chips run both Windows and Android, "the low price points should be Android," Walker said.
Hewlett-Packard has an Android tablet -- the Slate 7 -- that is priced at $140 but uses an ARM processor.
The future Atom (the launch date is unknown) will be different than the Bay Trail tablet processors that Intel is detailing this week at its annual chip conference. Those processors will land, for the most part, in tablets that compete in higher price ranges. And many of those will run Windows 8.1