A latest report suggests that many popular PC manufacturing companies like HP and Dell have decided to use Windows 8 as the operating system for their tablets. With the coming up of Amazon’s Kindle Fire at a considerably lesser price, the competition among the Android based tablets have got quite tighten making it pretty tough for the devices to continue in the same segment. This has made most manufacturers to leave out Android and start on with a fresher take with Windows 8.

Recently at the Dell World 2011, Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell told that the Android tablet segment didn’t do that well as was their expectation, this made him consider their decision and go for associations with Windows for the development of their new devices. Though, Mr. Dell didn’t say any thing in a clear cut way, it appears somewhat apparent that they will get into this association with their latest tablet by developing it on Windows 8 operating system.

Again, HP is looking forward to go for an entirely new tablet segment after the discouraging performance of its TouchPad.

Dell and HP are expected to release their new tablets around the third quarter of 2012. And as Windows 8 has just touched the market, this time selection seems quite appropriate.

Microsoft is expecting its Windows 8 to perform well with its presence in most of the Microsoft devices that include computer systems, mobile phones, and the tablets. It is believed to be giving a perfectly seamless and quite comfortable performance which will surely be well liked by all the Windows users. Windows 8 will make it possible for the users to work using their keyboard and mouse as well as touch screen.

Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. are few of the names which are looking forward to make their presence felt by getting a place competing with Kindle and iPad with the Microsoft’s newest presentation. Meticulously speaking, it won’t be wrong to say that Windows 8 is Microsoft’s essentiality for the moment in order to make its presence prominent in the table segment where Apple is yet the king.

It is speculated that if this operating system proves itself successful in giving all that it has promised, it will surely make a special place for itself in the segment.

Amazon is again in the news with its amazing plan to introduce an Android tablet which is going to have about a 9 inch screen. It won’t be offering a camera, however the Amazon customers will be able to watch videos, listen to digital music, and most importantly read their favorite electronic books, which they will either have to purchase or get on rent from online retailers. This tablet is going to be out sometimes before October.

Other than that, it is reported that the company is also going to roll out updated black and white versions of its much acclaimed Kindle electronic reader in Q3 2011. The first updated version is going to be a touch screen device and the other one is going to be an enhanced and inexpensive alteration of the Kindle currently available in the market.

Amazon was in the news last month also, and the buzz had it that it was about to launch tablet models sometimes in August or September of this year. If the buzz is to be believed these tablets would soon be out and will be targeted to the global market with sales of 4 million units for this year itself. It would have involvement of Quanta Computer for assembling the processors developed by Texas Instruments, touch panels from Taiwan based Wintek, and LCD driver ICs from ILI Technology. Streaming movie services are also to be provided to the users by Amazon.

Again, there was another rumor around two months ago, according to which Amazon would be bringing out two different tablets by the end of 2011. These would include a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 platform based entry level tablet named Coyote and the other one named Hollywood, based on  quad core Kal-El platform from Nvidia Tegra, and perhaps this platform would be called Tegra 3.

Perhaps, Amazon is the favorite of the rumor mongers as it has been highly active in the rumors and the buzz saying that Amazon is going to build a tablet has been around for quite sometimes now, however, it started up some three months back. Then it was also in the talks that it would involve Samsung for building the Android tablet.

Jeff Bezos, the president of Amazon has also observed that the Amazon tablets in the pipeline will prove highly beneficial compared to the decision of replacing the current Kindle.

Kindle is the most popular and most selling product from Amazon. And thus, company is looking forward to take it further by reducing the price and introducing new tablets with higher prices than the price of Kindle. This way the present Kindle will attract education and consumer market whereas the other expensive tablets will be bringing in the buyers from the normal e-book readers.

Intel is well determined to set a place for itself in the tablet market. It has indeed become one of the topmost priorities of the company. They have just brought out Oak Trail platform and have announced that more than 35 tablet and hybrid designs will be brought out by Samsung, Lenovo, and several others. A big part of the company’s tablet push is going to be Honeycomb of Android 3.0 and Intel is undoubtedly planning to give in a subsidy of $10 for the shipment of each of the Intel-based tablet so that it can get the attention of vendors selling first-tier notebook into the Atom fold.

Now finally this strategy has been planned out after going through negotiations with Google for about six long months. It is a part of Intel’s new “PRC Plus” which has the advantage of Intel processor’s stronger performance as compared to the ARM-based processors. So far the reports say that according to this plan, the vendors adopting Intel chips in tablets will get to save some amount from Windows licensing fees.

It is said that on completion of the last round of antitrust fees and other settlements, a few eyebrows are going to be raised for Intel’s subsidy strategy as the rumors have it that the strategy is to use a single core Atom Z670 of 1.5 GHz in the tablets  which will cost $75 to OEMs. This amount is about a fifth of what is the present retail price of the latest tablets and is somewhat around four times the cost of Nvidia Tegra 2, which is the current industry favorite and costs about $20 for OEM orders.

Atom is believed to be offering better performance as compared to ARM-based designs; however it is still not confirmed if the integrated graphics component in it has the potential to work well with the latest system on chip designs especially optimized for gaming. The company also announced that the device will be supporting Android, Windows, and MeeGo. It will also be supporting high definition audio, 1080p video decode; USB2.0 as well as HDMI connectivity; and will be offering a really fast Internet browsing and longer battery back up along with maintaining the quality of the performance of the device.